Professors Farhat Hasan and Neeladri Bhattacharya have similar ideas on the reasons why the NCERT’s revisions have been controversial. https://thewire.in/education/textbook-ncert-mughals-correction-history-interview-neeladri-bhattacharya-farha
NCERT’s text books for school children are wrought with controversies – especially how the body has gone about particular deletions in its revision of the syllabus, mainly of history and the social sciences. Accusations have flown thick and fast about the saffronisation of education and how the textbooks have been made to reflect the political views of the present Narendra Modi government. Many allege that they are designed to promote the Hindutva nationalist narrative of past glory and splendour.
01/08/2025