The NCERT has omitted references to the 2002 Gujarat riots, the burning of the Babri Mosque, and the 1975 Emergency from school textbooks. NCERT Director Dinesh Prasad Saklani stated that educating about riots "can create violent and depressed citizens."
Revised textbooks for classes 6 to 12 no longer mention these events to promote "positive citizens," Saklani told PTI. He questioned if schools should risk educating young pupils on materials that could incite hatred.
Critics contend that this erases key historical events, while Saklani insists that the adjustments are fact-based and made by specialists, with no political interference.
The Class 12 political science textbook now refers to the Babri Masjid as a “three-domed structure” and notes the 2019 Supreme Court ruling on erecting a Ram temple at the site.
The NCERT defends these modifications as rationalizing content, trying to give education without generating societal divisions. The dispute remains on how history should be taught to young brains.
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