Thread by @saileenas

#Rajasthan textbook explicitly lists “demerits of democracy,” “democracy teaches a person to be selfish, cunning& illusive, “democracies do not produce economic development”,& they are particularly weak “in times of crisis.” #BJP_ভাগাও_দেশ_বাঁচাও #Hindutva kractivist.org/indias-rewritt…

The new textbooks promote the BJP’s political program and ideology.
History is twisted to promote Hindu supremacy&islamophobia. Maharana pratap won battle of haldighati, India won sino india conflict, Nazis were good etc etc #BJP_ভাগাও_দেশ_বাঁচাও #HinduRashtra

these textbooks are essentially political manifestos.
#Rajasthan’s 7th-grade book directs students to “prepare a chart of the advertisements published by the Govt abt its different schemes&with the help of your teacher discuss the benefits of these schemes.”
#BJP_ভাগাও_দেশ_বাঁচাও

#Gujarat textbooks have frequent criticism of the Treaty of Versailles and an enumeration of Mussolini’s successes, the new twelfth-grade history book praises Hitler at length. The RSS founders also loved Hitler.
#BJP_ভাগাও_দেশ_বাঁচাও #Hindutva

#Rajasthan textbooks have made the Harappan civilization fully Vedic, renaming it the “Sindhu-Saraswati” civilization. Apparently during Hindu rule nobody except chandals ate meat or drank wine,” & rulers were “hardcore followers of Hinduism.” meat=impure as per hindutva grps