NCERT Textbook Row | 33 academicians ask to remove their names from textbooks
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 been kept rather opaque, violating the core principles of transparency and contestation that, we believe, underlies academic knowledge production.” “NCERT has the Intellectual Property Rights on the textbooks. “Well-researched” “With great regret at this turn of events we, therefore, request you to delete our names, as members of the Textbook Development Committee, from the political science textbooks of NCERT,” say the academics. The 33 academicians emphasised in their letter that the textbooks were the result of extensive deliberations and collaborations among political scientists from various perspectives and ideological backgrounds and that they were meant to spread knowledge about the goals of India’s freedom struggle, the aspirations of the Constituent Assembly, the tenets of our constitutional order, the function of leaders and movements, the features of our federal system, and the optimistic and dynamic future of our country.
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