The Government of India is going to bring a big change in the syllabus of NCERT. The ruling party BJP has been saying for a long time that the invaders and the Mughals have been glorified in history. Curriculum changes being carried out by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) have removed many chapters from Islamic rulers while shortening many.
The Indian Express scoured nine existing history textbooks for classes 6 to 12 and compared them with the proposed curriculum changes in NCERT.
The investigation found that many major changes have been made in the curriculum related to Muslim rulers. Many pages related to the Delhi Sultanate have been removed from the Class 7 history textbook ‘Our Past – II’. It contains chapters related to Mamluk, Tughlaq, Khilji, Lodi and Mughal rulers.
Regarding these changes, it has been argued from NCERT that only government institutions take the decision regarding changes in syllabus and books. At present, the revision of the curriculum is to reduce the burden of studies on the children, so as to compensate for the loss caused during Corona.
Recently, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who arrived at a book release program on June 10, said that the history of the country has presented the Mughals prominently at the expense of empires like Pandya, Chola, Maurya, Gupta and Ahom and now “No one can stop us from rewriting it.”
Important changes made in the curriculum
In Class 7 Our History-II (Our Past-II), Sultan has been removed from the name of Mahmud Ghazni, who attacked and destroyed the Somnath temple in India. Chapter one ‘Mughal Empire’ was renamed as ‘Mughal’. has given. Along with this, many chapters related to Akbar’s administration have been removed. The name of the chapter named Delhi Sultan has been changed from Delhi 12 to 15 century. The names of the big Mughal subas such as Oudh, Bengal and Hyderabad have been removed. While chapters from Rajput, Maratha, Sikh and Jat have been retained. The chapter ‘The Central Islamic Lands’ of class 11 has been dropped. In this it was told about the expansion of Islam from Egypt to Afghanistan.