[Marxistindia] Reverse Deletions in NCERT Text Books

[news from the cpi(m)]

April 6, 2023

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

Reverse Deletions in NCERT Text Books

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns
the efforts by the government to change the syllabus of history through the
NCERT text books.

 

The NCERT chief's specious argument that this has been done to rationalize
the syllabus and reduce the burden on the students is totally misleading and
is part of a project to rewrite history along communal lines. The government
is obviously overlooking that different periods of our past cannot be just
deleted based on communal prejudice. This underlines the majoritarian
mindset which is distorting history itself by dropping entire chapters about
the Mughal empire.

 

That the current efforts to revise the text books are actually intended to
whitewash the divisive and violent role of the RSS is evident in the manner
in which the crucial sentences regarding the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
which led to the ban of the organization is sought to be struck off. 

 

We urge the government to immediately take the necessary steps to reverse
these obnoxious steps and restore the old text books. We also urge upon all
Indian patriots interested in defending the objective study of our past to
raise their voice of protest.

 

 

 

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