Centre Drops References To Babri Masjid, Gujarat Riots In School Textbooks

Dropping references to the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the killing of Muslims in Gujarat riots and Hindutva, and tweaking the reference to Manipur's merger with India are amongst the latest set of revisions made public by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in its textbooks.

While NCERT did not comment on the topics being dropped, officials said the tweaks are part of the routine update and are not linked to the development of new books as per the New Curriculum Framework (NCF). The changes have been made in the Political Science textbooks of classes 11 and 12, among others.

According to a document detailing the changes prepared by the curriculum drafting committee of the NCERT, the references to the Ram Janmabhoomi movement have been tweaked "as per the latest developments in politics".