Within six months of taking a fee, the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress authorities in Rajasthan have made numerous changes to high school textbooks for students following the national board. The adjustments relate to ancient occasions and personalities and decisions taken with the aid of the NDA authorities in its first term.
The freshly-published books for the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) were distributed within the marketplace by way of the Rajasthan State Textbook Board (RSTB). The adjustments were made following the recommendations made using the textbook evaluate committee installation on February 13 this 12 months to observe if the sooner changes to high school textbooks had been made to fulfill political pastimes and distort records.
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Description of Savarkar and his function in Class 12 History ebook.
Old e-book: Savarkar prefixed with ‘Veer’ in the chapter on freedom movement. The component extensively discusses the contribution of Savarkar in India’s independence movement.
New e-book: Savarkar addressed as ‘Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.’ It describes how Savarkar, afflicted using the torture inflicted on him within the Cellular Jail by way of the British, known as himself a ‘son of Portugal’ in his 2d mercy petition on November 14, 1911. He despatched four mercy petitions to the British. Following his freedom, it says Savarkar worked towards setting up India as a ‘Hindu kingdom’ and decided to ‘militarise Hinduodom’ (sic). Savarkar opposed the Quit India motion in 1942 and the advent of Pakistan in 1946. After the homicide of Gandhi on January 30, 1948, he turned into tried on costs of conspiring for murder and helping Godse; however, he turned into acquitted from the case.
The Haldighati battle among Maharana Pratap and Akbar in Class 10 Social Science ebook
Old ebook: It says that Mughal Emperor Akbar failed in his targets of shooting or killing Pratap or triumph over his entire country. The award of the conflict of Haldighati in favor of Maharana Pratap with arguments that the Mughal military did now not observe the navy of Mewar and frolicked in worry.
New ebook: The portion of warfare of Haldighati ends with Pratap leaving the battlefield and his horse Chetak dying. silent at the result, the bankruptcy describes Pratap’s guerrilla war against Akbar in next years. likewise, the conflict among Maharana Pratap and Akbar was now not a nonsecular struggle but a conflict for superiority between political forces. the
Demonetisation in Class 12 Political Science
Old book: Under the chapter Terrorism, Criminalisation of Politics & Corruption and Characteristics of Indian Foreign Policy & Non-alignment, demonetization has been referred to as ‘kale than ki safari Abhiyan.’ The chapters speak effect of demonetization on corruption and overseas policy.
New book: All references to demonetization removed.
Reference to establishments with political coloration in Class 12 Political Science book.
Old ebook: In the bankruptcy titled ‘Casteism and Communalism,’ simplest Muslim establishments such as Jamaat-e-Islam, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul, and SIMI had been noted.
New book: Hindu Mahasabha has been delivered to the listing of political clothing, propagating divisive thoughts for self-interest. The list consists of the Muslim organizations stated in advance.
Reference to Jihad in Class 12 Political Science ebook.
Old e-book: In the chapter ‘India’s relations with its neighbors (Pakistan, China, and Nepal),’ it changed into stated that anti-India coverage or Jihad is a list of troubles affecting Indo-Pak members of the family.
New e-book: The phrase ‘Jihad’ has been ignored in the new e-book.
Alauddin Khilji’s attack on Chittor in Class 12 History ebook
Old ebook: In the bankruptcy ‘Muslim attack- Objective and Impact,’ Khilji’s assault on Chittor, consistent with some historians, turned into because he wanted Padmini, the lovely spouse of Ratan Singh, the Mewar of Chittor. Also, according to Malik Muhammad Jayasi’s literary paintings Padmavati, getting Padmini was the purpose behind Khilji’s assault.
New book: It cites Padmavati to mention this turned into the cause. But it also says academicians KS Lal, Kanungo, and Habib do not accept as true with Padmini turned into the motive after studying events and records. It argues there may be no historical proof of many incidents described in Padmavati, including Khilji’s siege of Chittor for eight years as defined by way of Jayasi.
When contacted, Rajasthan Education Minister Govind Singh Dotasara stated all updating syllabus was persevering with a method. “We formed a committee of educationists and discovered errors in several such textbooks along with instances in which records turned into distorted and provided. We don’t have any political schedule in it. We made the modifications in keeping with the report of the committee. But at some stage in the previous BJP regime, they deliberately changed the NCERT syllabus to impose the ideology of the RSS and changed the textbooks, which also amounted to the lack of loads of crores of rupees,” he instructed The Indian Express.
Vasudev Devnani, BJP MLA and former schooling minister within the preceding regime, stated, “I continually say Krantikariyon ka man, ye Congression ki hai pehchan (Congress human beings are identified through their habit of insulting revolutionaries). They have by no means permit the history of revolutionaries to come within the mild. They serve simplest one own family, and they believe that Subhash Chandra Bose, Veer Savarkar, Dr. Rajendra Prasad if the records of those human beings come out then the stature of Nehru and the Gandhi own family will fall.