Ajit Karn
Asaduddin Owaisi, the leader of AIMIM, stated on Tuesday that while the Modi government is erasing the Mughal history from textbooks, China is erasing India’s present.
The remark is made amid a heated debate over the NCERT’s rationalization of the CBSE textbooks. In his criticism, Owaisi referred to the issue of China naming 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh and stated, “On the one hand, the Modi government is erasing the Mughals history from the NCERT curriculum, while China, with whom PM Modi was shaking hands at the G20 Indonesia meeting, is erasing our present.”
Dispute over Mughal history at NCERT
It is a falsehood, according to NCERT director Dinesh Prasad Saklani, that chapters on the Mughals have been removed from CBSE textbooks. “There was a process of rationalisation last year. There was strain on students everywhere because of Covid,” the NCERT director said, adding that the expert committee recommended dropping the chapters that will not affect the students’ knowledge. “The history of the Mughals is covered in Empires, section 2 of the 11th grade textbook. In the textbook for class 12 there were two chapters on the history of the Mughals; theme nine was withdrawn last year, while theme eight is still being taught. This year, no book has had a chapter removed,” said Saklani.
“Modern Indian history should begin in 2014,” said Sibal Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal. “Modi ji’s Bharat” is consistent with the deletion of Mughal chapters. “Modern Indian history should begin in 2014,” joked Kapil Sibal.
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The media reported that NCERT has removed references to the Gujatay riot and the prohibition on the RSS.
