🚨SCOOP: Modi govt has QUIETLY made last-minute changes in the new social science textbooks which hit market recently.
These controversial tweaks were LEFT OUT of #NCERT's official announcement on "rationalised content" last year.
Details in 🧵
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indianexpress.com/article/educat…
The most glaring 👀of them are the deletions pertaining to Mahatma Gandhi's assassination
DELETED 👉: Ban imposed on the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) by the union govt after Gandhi's death dropped from Class Political Science textbook
(see pic for deleted sentences)
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EXHIBIT B:
Sentences on how Gandhi's steadfast pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity provoked Hindu extremists have been removed from the Class 12 Political Science textbook
(see highlighted sentences in photo)
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This is what the old and re-printed version of the pages look like 👇
(Source: Class 12 textbook 'Politics in India since Independence)
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Wait, there are MORE deletions pertaining to Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse.
In the Class 12 History textbook titled ‘Themes In Indian History Part III’, NCERT has dropped a “Brahmin” reference to #Godse and that he was “the editor of an extremist Hindu newspaper”.
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ANOTHER reference to the Gujarat riots deleted 👇
DROPPED: A paragraph from Class 11 Sociology book that talks about how class, religion & ethnicities lead to segregation of residential areas & cites 2002 Gujarat riots to illustrate how communal violence furthers ghettoisation
With the removal of the above paragraph 👆, NCERT has purged all references to Gujarat riots from its textbooks!
The above was the only surviving reference to the 2002 riots in NCERT textbooks.
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The Council had earlier announced deletion of two references to the Gujarat riots from the Class 12 political science textbook ‘Politics in India Since Independence & the Class 12 sociology textbook ‘Indian Society’
We had reported that last year: indianexpress.com/article/expres…
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The above (hush-hush) deletions are among the most sweeping changes in school textbooks since the NDA government came to power in 2014.
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These are in addition to the ones OFFICIALLY announced by the NCERT last year. You can find details on ALL deletions in the NCERT social science textbooks in our three-part investigation from June 2022.
You can read all three parts here:
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And lastly, an appeal to support @IndianExpress journalism 👇
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