Consistent with PM Modi's India…: Kapil Sibal snipes at govt over revisions in NCERT textbooks
1 year, 8 months ago

Consistent with PM Modi's India…: Kapil Sibal snipes at govt over revisions in NCERT textbooks

India Today  

In a veiled attack on the Centre, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Wednesday disparaged the decision to drop lessons on Mughal courts from the National Council of Educational Research and Training books. In a tweet, Sibal said, "NCERT textbooks: Effaced: 1) Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu Muslim unity 2) Banning of RSS 3) All references to Gujarat riots 4) Protests that turned into social movements in contemporary India." NCERT textbooks: Effaced: 1) Gandhi’s pursuit of Hindu Muslim unity 2) Banning of RSS 3) All references to Gujarat riots 4) Protests that turned into social movements in contemporary India Consistent with Modiji’s Bharat modern Indian history should start from 2014â€æ! — Kapil Sibal April 5, 2023 Earlier, it was reported that Uttar Pradesh government schools will adopt from this academic session the NCERT's new class 12 history textbooks in which portions about Mughal courts have been removed. As part of its "syllabus rationalisation" exercise last year, NCERT had dropped certain portions from the syllabus, including lessons on Mughal courts, from its class 12 textbooks, stating they were "overlapping" and "irrelevant".

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MP govt orders to incorporate books authored by RSS leaders into curriculum of colleges
4 months, 1 week ago

MP govt orders to incorporate books authored by RSS leaders into curriculum of colleges

India TV News  

Bharatiya Janata Party-led Madhya Pradesh government issued a directive regarding incorporating books authored by leaders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh into the curriculum of colleges across the state. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on August 6 dubbed the allegation that the Preamble to the Constitution has been removed from NCERT textbooks as baseless. The comments from the education minister came …

NCERT Revises Parts of Class 12 History Textbook Amidst Harappan DNA Study Revelations: Reports
8 months, 2 weeks ago

NCERT Revises Parts of Class 12 History Textbook Amidst Harappan DNA Study Revelations: Reports

News 18  

The National Council for Education Research and Training has implemented notable revisions in the history segment tailored for Class 12 students, focusing on the emergence and decline of the Harappan civilisation, as reported by The Indian Express. While updates have been made across many subjects for different grades including 7, 8, 10, 11, and 12, the most significant changes are …

How RSS textbooks are reshaping Indian history and science under Modi
10 months ago

How RSS textbooks are reshaping Indian history and science under Modi

Al Jazeera  

The chain of schools run by the BJP’s far-right ideological mentor also served as a laboratory for government changes to syllabuses. “The NEP has taken some of our schools’ practices to the broader sphere,” he said, hoping for more information from the Sanskriti Bodhmala books to find their way into the formal national school syllabus. ‘Glorious culture’ Vidya Bharati says …

NCERT clarifies on India to Bharat name change: ‘Too premature to comment’
1 year, 1 month ago

NCERT clarifies on India to Bharat name change: ‘Too premature to comment’

Live Mint  

The high-level committee for social sciences constituted by National Council of Educational Research and Training has issued a recommendation that "India" should be replaced with "Bharat" in the school textbooks for all classes. The NCERT took to micro-blogging site ‘X’ and clarified on the buzz over name change of the country from India to Bharat, it said “NCERT states that …

NCERT Textbook Row | 33 academicians ask to remove their names from textbooks
1 year, 6 months ago

NCERT Textbook Row | 33 academicians ask to remove their names from textbooks

The Hindu  

Days after Yogesh Yadav and Suhas Palshikar, advisors for National Council For Educational Research and Training, distanced themselves from the “rationalised” political science textbooks, 33 academics from prestigious colleges across India, who were on the textbook development committee, wrote to the NCERT Director D.P. It further stated, “The decision of who decides what is unacceptable and what is desirable has …

Review of A New History of India — From its Origins to the 21st Century: Heroes and villains
1 year, 7 months ago

Review of A New History of India — From its Origins to the 21st Century: Heroes and villains

The Hindu  

For some time, professional historians have wondered whether a single, usable, Indian past can any longer be written. Professional historians have of late also been dealing with the political challenge to their practice, as a wide range of ‘custodians’ of the past have emerged, from amateurs, ‘scientists’ and community gatekeepers, to hyper-ethno-nationalists, who lay exclusive claim not only to historical …

NCERT tweaks appear politically motivated
1 year, 8 months ago

NCERT tweaks appear politically motivated

Hindustan Times  

A little over a week ago, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra tweeted, “It is a great decision to remove false history of Mughals from NCERT. Much as we would like to believe in NCERT’s institutional integrity, successive statements by several commentators made no mention of the Covid-19-burden-induced deletions, and instead defended the deletions on the grounds that the textbooks …

Why is Modi so scared of history textbooks?
1 year, 8 months ago

Why is Modi so scared of history textbooks?

Al Jazeera  

The PM’s party is editing textbooks to create a fantasy of India as a Hindu-only nation that has always been loving and just. After nine years in power, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government has finally defeated the long departed Mughal Empire and other Muslim rulers. It’s shocking – how will students make sense of present-day India without …

The Fallacy of Debate over NCERT Textbook by the Prophets of Doom - News18
1 year, 8 months ago

The Fallacy of Debate over NCERT Textbook by the Prophets of Doom - News18

News 18  

The academic commissars are back again, haunted, apparently by the spectre of saffronisation of the National Council of Educational Research and Training textbooks. From concerned historians, a pseudonym for the old contractors of the history syllabus in India, to journalist-activists eager to peddle the political agenda of the elites of the ancient regime, to the scores of political parties desperate …

Historians ‘appalled’ by NCERT trying to make history textbooks ‘one-sided’
1 year, 8 months ago

Historians ‘appalled’ by NCERT trying to make history textbooks ‘one-sided’

Live Mint  

Historians have expressed dismay over the decision by the National Council of Educational Research and Training to remove certain chapters from history textbooks for Central Board of Secondary Education students. The NCERT's move to remove sections on the Mughal Empire from class 12 history books has attracted widespread criticism. In a statement, a group of historians, including Romila Thapar, Jayati …

AP History Congress panel slams NCERT decision to erase chapters on Moghuls from history textbooks
1 year, 8 months ago

AP History Congress panel slams NCERT decision to erase chapters on Moghuls from history textbooks

The Hindu  

Without the study of Mughal history, the history of India will remain incomplete and an academic void will be created, say members Members of the Andhra Pradesh History Congress have expressed serious concern over the National Council of Educational Research and Training ‘s decision to erase certain chapters on the Mughal Empire from Class 11 and 12 textbooks. They argued …

Changes made in books to reduce the burden on students: NCERT
1 year, 8 months ago

Changes made in books to reduce the burden on students: NCERT

Hindustan Times  

Certain topics detailing the circumstances around Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination were among those removed from Class 12 textbooks last year as part of syllabus cuts meant to lower the burden on students wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Council of Educational Research and Training said on Wednesday. HT Image The clarification came in response to a report in the Indian …

‘Silent’ Deletions of Gandhi, RSS, Godse References in NCERT Books ‘Case of Oversight’, Says Council Head
1 year, 8 months ago

‘Silent’ Deletions of Gandhi, RSS, Godse References in NCERT Books ‘Case of Oversight’, Says Council Head

News 18  

The NCERT’s top brass pegged as a “case of oversight" the “silent" deletions of several references to Mahatma Gandhi, the RSS, Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse and 2002 Gujarat riots from the new political science, history and sociology textbooks for Classes 11 and 12. Key deletions from chapters include references such as – ‘Dislike of Hindu extremists for Mahatma Gandhi’s pursuit …

On NCERT-Mughals row, Kapil Sibal says ‘PM Modi’s Bharat…’
1 year, 8 months ago

On NCERT-Mughals row, Kapil Sibal says ‘PM Modi’s Bharat…’

Hindustan Times  

Amid the raging controversy over the National Council of Educational Research and Training allegedly removing certain portions on Mughal courts from class 12 history textbooks, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Wednesday took a swipe at the BJP government. Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal has reacted to the controversy over NCERT's alleged removal of certain portions on Mughal history from …

OPINION | UNNECESSARY ROW OVER NCERT SYLLABUS
1 year, 8 months ago

OPINION | UNNECESSARY ROW OVER NCERT SYLLABUS

India TV News  

NCERT SYLLABUS row : There has been an unnecessary row in academic circles over removal of certain chapters relating to Mughal history from NCERT syllabus. From Class XI syllabus, chapters like Central Islamic Lands, Confrontation of Cultures and The Industrial Revolution were removed, from Class XII Civic book chapters like Rise of Popular Movements and Era of One-Party Dominance were …

NCERT drops texts on Gandhi, Hindu-Muslim unity, RSS ban from Class 12 textbook
1 year, 8 months ago

NCERT drops texts on Gandhi, Hindu-Muslim unity, RSS ban from Class 12 textbook

India TV News  

The National Council of Educational Research and Training has removed several texts on Mahatma Gandhi, Hindu-Muslim unity and RSS from CBSE Class 12 Political Science textbook for the new academic session 2023-24. The topics which have been removed from the Class 12 textbook include "Gandhiji's death had a magical effect on communal situation in the country", "Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim …

U.P. to follow revised NCERT textbooks; topics on Mughal empire to be missed
1 year, 8 months ago

U.P. to follow revised NCERT textbooks; topics on Mughal empire to be missed

The Hindu  

After the National Council of Educational Research & Training decided to remove topics related to the Mughal empire from history textbooks for Standard 12, the Uttar Pradesh Board schools are following suit. State-Board students will no longer study topics like ‘Kings and Chronicles’, and ‘The Mughal Courts ’. Likewise, from Class 11 textbook ‘Themes In World History’, topics like ‘Industrial …

NCERT chief denies dropping chapters on Mughals, says ‘rationalisation…’
1 year, 8 months ago

NCERT chief denies dropping chapters on Mughals, says ‘rationalisation…’

Hindustan Times  

After the National Council of Educational Research and Training decision to drop chapters on Mughal history sparked controversy, the education body's chief has now issued a clarification. Calling the debate unnecessary, the NCERT director said the expert committee recommended that if the chapter was dropped, it will not affect the knowledge of the children and an ‘unnecessary burden’ can be …

NCERT drops chapters on Mughal Empire. Kapil Mishra says ‘Akbar…’
1 year, 8 months ago

NCERT drops chapters on Mughal Empire. Kapil Mishra says ‘Akbar…’

Hindustan Times  

After National Council of Educational Research and Training announced its decision to erase certain chapters on the Mughal Empire from the class 12 history textbooks, BJP leader Kapil Mishra lauded the move. Kapil Mishra called NCERT's move on excluding portions of Mughal Empire from class 12 history books a 'great decision'. Akbar, Babar, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb are not in the history …

UP schools to adopt revised NCERT books; No lessons on Mughal courts
1 year, 8 months ago

UP schools to adopt revised NCERT books; No lessons on Mughal courts

Hindustan Times  

Uttar Pradesh government schools will adopt from this academic session the NCERT's new class 12 history textbooks in which portions about Mughal courts have been removed. Portions on Mughal courts and Gujarat riots have been removed from NCERT Class 12 History and Political Science textbooks "We teach our students using NCERT books.whatever is there in the revised edition will be …

Students Urges NCERT to Include Northeast History in Curriculum
3 years, 6 months ago

Students Urges NCERT to Include Northeast History in Curriculum

News 18  

Following the Ludhiana-based YouTuber’s racist slur against Arunachal Pradesh MLA Ninong Ering, several students from northeast India have come together on social media to create a Twitter Storm. One of the organisers of the Twitter Storm and Advisor, North East Students’ Union, Vadodara Debonil Baruah tweeted last week that there should be a “mandatory chapter” in NCERT highlighting the society …

Activist sends legal notice to make amends to NCERT books over 'distorted history' on Mughals
3 years, 9 months ago

Activist sends legal notice to make amends to NCERT books over 'distorted history' on Mughals

Op India  

An RTI activist has sent a legal notice to the NCERT and sought to make amendments in the book after the NCERT said that they had no references to the claims in 12th standard books that Mughal emperor Aurangzeb gave grant for repairs of temples. #NewsAlert | Activist from Bharatpur sends a legal notice to NCERT over the content on …

Meeting held to discuss revision of NCERT history textbooks
3 years, 11 months ago

Meeting held to discuss revision of NCERT history textbooks

Op India  

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education met on Wednesday to discuss the revision of current National Council of Educational Research and Training history textbooks in schools. During the debate over the need for change in the syllabus, former NCERT director JS Rajput and representatives of the Bhartiya Shikshan Mandal told the committee that current history textbooks in schools are not …

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