NCERT’s revision of textbooks part of ‘saffronisation’ agenda, says Kerala CM

By PTI

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday strongly condemned the dropping of positive chapters and elements from NCERT class 12 textbooks and alleged that “complete saffronisation” of academic books was the goal behind the switch.

Historical info cannot be denied by merely slicing out elements which will be inconvenient (to some one) from textbooks, he acknowledged in a Facebook put up.

Excluding positive elements and chapters from the textbooks with a political motive was not solely a negation of historic previous however as well as a condemnable switch.

It is obvious that the goal behind such actions is the “complete saffronisation of textbooks”, the CM added.

In the hard-hitting put up, CM acknowledged it was clear whose curiosity was being served by the omission of elements regarding the assassination of the ‘Father of the Nation’ Mahatma Gandhi and the subsequent banning of the RSS, from the political science textbook of sophistication 12.

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Portions regarding the Mughal Empire had been moreover decrease down from the historic previous textbook of the equivalent class, he recognized.

“The medieval history of India, excluding the Mughal Empire, is incomplete,” he acknowledged, alleging that medieval Indian historic previous had always been an area that the Sangh Parivar had twisted and distorted.

The Kerala CM accused the NCERT of “whitewashing the fake history” created by the Sangh Parivar by excluding these elements.

The Sangh Parivar, by way of the textbooks, was trying to inculcate the politics of hatred and division into the minds of children, the Marxist veteran extra charged.

Accusing the NCERT of supporting the distorted methodology of the RSS in writing historic previous, Vijayan acknowledged sturdy protest have to be registered in opposition to such strikes which could in some other case undermine the secular coaching envisaged by the Constitution.

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The NCERT simply these days dropped from its class 12 historic previous textbook positive elements on Mahatma Gandhi and the best way his pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity “provoked Hindu extremists”.

It moreover unnoticed the portion the place the federal authorities had positioned a ban on the RSS after Gandhi’s assassination.

The revision of textbooks by obfuscating info has triggered a row.

“Gandhiji’s death had a magical effect on communal situation in the country”, “Gandhi’s pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity provoked Hindu extremists” and “Organisations like RSS were banned for some time” are among the many many elements deleted from the textbook.

Portions referring to the Gujarat riots have moreover been dropped from the class 11 sociology textbook, months after NCERT eradicated the reference to the 2002 communal violence in two class 12 textbooks.

The Congress has accused the Centre of “whitewashing” and “distorting” historic previous.

NCERT Chief Dinesh Saklani acknowledged the syllabus was “rationalised” in June closing yr itself, and there was no trimming of the curriculum this yr.

Historical info cannot be denied by merely slicing out elements which will be inconvenient (to some one) from textbooks, he acknowledged in a Facebook put up.

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