Express News Service
DEHRADUN: The history of Mughal rulers has become ‘history’ for children of Uttarakhand as the state government decides to remove chapters on Mughals from their textbooks.
‘How Islam emerged and what was the Contribution of the Mughal rulers in the history of India’ will no longer be part of Uttarakhand’s curriculum.
According to the information received, “The NCERT pattern is applicable to Uttarakhand government schools. The change in the pattern of NCERT will be implemented for the upcoming academic session 2023-24. Chapters on ‘Rise of Islam’, ‘Clash of Cultures’, ‘Industrial Revolution’, ‘Beginning of Time’ will be removed from the syllabus of the Class 11 textbook.
“The move has been taken by NCERT academicians and experts and will definitely prove effective in terms of the changing picture,” state Director General of Education Banshidhar Tiwari told the TNIE.
BJP state spokesperson Virendra Bisht said, “CM Dhami is also focusing on teaching what is inspirational for children. “Children behave according to what is being taught to them in schools.”
“Mughals can neither be an inspiration nor a source of inspiration. Therefore, the removal of the Mughal period chapter is a welcome step,” he added.
Meanwhile, Congress state spokesperson Garima Dasuoni took a dig at the government’s decision, “Debating on whose history has disappeared and whose has been kept is meaningless. The only thing that matters is that after 2014, India has become ‘independent’. History is being written in a new way. In such a situation, who will be glorified in this history and who will be made secondary, it will be decided by the one who is in power, which is exactly what the BJP is doing”.
DEHRADUN: The history of Mughal rulers has become ‘history’ for children of Uttarakhand as the state government decides to remove chapters on Mughals from their textbooks.
‘How Islam emerged and what was the Contribution of the Mughal rulers in the history of India’ will no longer be part of Uttarakhand’s curriculum.
According to the information received, “The NCERT pattern is applicable to Uttarakhand government schools. The change in the pattern of NCERT will be implemented for the upcoming academic session 2023-24. Chapters on ‘Rise of Islam’, ‘Clash of Cultures’, ‘Industrial Revolution’, ‘Beginning of Time’ will be removed from the syllabus of the Class 11 textbook.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });
“The move has been taken by NCERT academicians and experts and will definitely prove effective in terms of the changing picture,” state Director General of Education Banshidhar Tiwari told the TNIE.
BJP state spokesperson Virendra Bisht said, “CM Dhami is also focusing on teaching what is inspirational for children. “Children behave according to what is being taught to them in schools.”
“Mughals can neither be an inspiration nor a source of inspiration. Therefore, the removal of the Mughal period chapter is a welcome step,” he added.
Meanwhile, Congress state spokesperson Garima Dasuoni took a dig at the government’s decision, “Debating on whose history has disappeared and whose has been kept is meaningless. The only thing that matters is that after 2014, India has become ‘independent’. History is being written in a new way. In such a situation, who will be glorified in this history and who will be made secondary, it will be decided by the one who is in power, which is exactly what the BJP is doing”.
