Education News Desk !!! NCERT has revised the Class 6 textbook. It now includes Ujjain as the median line before Greenwich. There is no mention of caste discrimination. The Harappan civilization will now be called the “Sindhu-Saraswati” civilization, with an emphasis on the Saraswati river. In India, before the Greenwich meridian, a major meridian called ‘Madhya Rekha’ passed through Ujjain. Greenwich was not the first principal meridian, but there were others in the past. The ‘Madhya Rekha’ passing through the Indian city of Ujjain was the main meridian of India in ancient times, which existed before the European meridian. This established Ujjain as a major center of astronomy. The textbook developed as per the new syllabus has no mention of caste-based discrimination. References to BR Ambedkar’s experience of discrimination have been revised. Details of the Vedas have been given. Women and Shudras were not allowed to study these texts.
Is this name known in Pakistan?
The new textbook calls the Harappan civilization the Indus-Saraswati civilization. The Saraswati river is mentioned repeatedly in the chapter “Beginnings of Indian Civilization”. Apart from large cities like Rakhigarhi and Ganweriwala, many small cities and towns existed in the Saraswati river valley, which shows the wide spread of this civilization. According to this, today this river is known as ‘Ghaggar’ in India and ‘Hakra’ in Pakistan and now it is only a seasonal river.
The priests divided the people into four groups
Let us tell you that in the old book it was told that some priests had divided people into four groups which was called the Varna system. Women and Shudras were not allowed to study Vedic studies. Then women were also kept in the Shudra category. NCERT director Dinesh Saklani said that the new book has removed four chapters from the previous textbook, which included the reign of Ashoka and Chandragupta Maurya, the role of Chanakya and his Arthashastra as well as the Gupta, Pallava and Chalukya dynasties and the works of Kalidasa. . done.
