Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib Decry Hindutva Attempts To Distort India’s History https://thewire.in/rights/romila-thapar-irfan-habib-decry-hindutva-attempts-to-distort-indias-history
Thapar said that a false narrative is being spread, including through the education system, by India’s present authorities, while Habib held that a false history was akin to a disease for the country.
RT: Attempts were being made to legitimise “the currently popular, distorted history to defend political ideology”...This fantasised history is being projected in multiple ways, through social media, TV channels and glossy magazines, all locations where none are bothered to separate fact from fake. They are also being propagated in a much more systematic way, such as through education,
A Notification by Rajya Sabha Secretariat said that a Parliamentary Standing Committee on education, women, children, youth and sports had taken up for examination and consideration the subject “reforms in the content and design of school textbooks.”
Their focus will be on the issues of “removing references to un-historical facts and distortions about national heroes from the textbooks; ensuring equal or proportionate references to all periods of Indian history; and highlighting the role of great historic women heroes, including Gargi, Maitreyi, or rulers like Rani of Jhansi, Rani Channamma, Chand Bibi and Zalkari Bai”
Thereafter, The Indian History Congress issued a strongly-worded statement https://indianhistorycongress.com/uploads/IHC%20Statement%20on%20Reforms%20in%20the%20Content%20and%20Design%20of%20NCERT%20textbooks%20,14072021.pdf saying that the critique of the existing textbooks implicit in the reforms being contemplated was “not emerging from any expert body of nationally and internationally recognised historians but from a political position favoured by non-academic votaries of prejudice”