#ncert

ⵌ clean - girl's aesthetic can go crying in the corner. I need my books to look like this by the end of the year. bits and pieces. memorized every. single. word and diagrams with graphs.

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You can't just distort history and remove a chunk of it. That's a very biased way of viewing something that actually happened not even 500 years ago. History is not fiction. You can't remove the existence of real people.

When you remove Mughal history, you also remove the good and bad they did. You remove the reason behind the beautiful blend of Indo-Islamic architecture, culture and art we see today, few of the things that have implied towards a sense of harmony amidst the religious chaos that reeked back in the day. But with that, you ALSO remove the massive destruction and looting of thousands of temples, the inhumane measures, laws and punishments they put up against non-Muslims, the struggles and sacrifices of the Hindus and other oppressed groups who protested against these atrocities oh-so-courageously. You remove their cries, their brave stories. You remove the valiant fights Shivaji, Maharana Pratap and their likes put up against these people. You remove the martyrs of the several genocides these guys (especially Babur) caused. You remove them all, because once there's no Mughals, who did these brave souls fight against?

Also why only Mughals? What about the Khaljis, Mamluks, Tughlaqs, Ghaznis and others? They committed way worse atrocities than the Mughals did tbh. So with that logic all of their histories should be wiped out? But that's almost like a 700-800-year-history-wipeout we're talking about (the dates might not be accurate). And that's not how it works.

Here's a better idea. Just... show their good and their bad, and just don't glorify them and their tyranny. We keep the struggles and the sour lives the suppressed groups lived under the rule of these dynasties, and maybe glorify the brave souls who fought selflessly against them. We show how they plundered any place of worship that wasn't a mosque (or Islamic in general), and treated the idols of these religions post-destruction. We can also include the non-Islamic kingdoms and kingdoms that stood still and strong despite the invasions, like the many Hindu kingdoms in the south, then the Ahom dynasty and a few other small kingdoms in the northeast, etc. We can bring lesser-known and highly underrated non-Islamic kingdoms into light too in this process, and how they dealt with these invaders. (Half of these points are already depicted in the existing textbooks, or... atleast the textbooks *I* studied back in school, but I think they get kinda overshadowed by the subtle glorification of these invaders)

The mention of judicial corruption in its textbook was factual, given that 11 Chief Justices and 2 Law and National Commission reports have themselves highlighted rampant judicial corruption.

It is the Supreme court that should have apologised.

NCERT apologises, says distribution of book with section on 'corruption' in judiciary stopped

After the Supreme court registers suo motu case over the matter, the NCERT apologises for the 'inappropriate textual material' and 'error in judgement' that had 'inadvertently crept' into the chapter.

God save this Country......

NCERT’s newly released Class 8 Social Science textbook, in the news for highlighting the “brutality” of Mughals, also excludes Tipu Sultan, Haider Ali, and the four Anglo–Mysore Wars from its chapter on colonial rule.

While the book, Exploring Society: India and Beyond (Part 1), traces early European arrival—from Vasco da Gama to the Battle of Plassey—and highlights economic exploitation, the 1857 Rebellion, and cultural looting, the Mysore resistance is notably absent.

Instead, NCERT includes uprisings such as the Sannyasi–Fakir rebellion, Kol and Santhal insurrections, and the Anglo–Maratha Wars. It even asserts that “the British took India from the Marathas more than from the Mughals or any other power”.

Explaining the change, Michel Danino, chair of the textbook development committee, emphasised that the book serves as an overview and not a comprehensive history. He noted that including every war would revert to a “cramming” style filled with dates and battles—and confirmed that Tipu Sultan and the Anglo–Mysore Wars won’t likely feature in Part 2 either, India Today reported.

The revised edition also brings fresh perspectives: it spotlights the economic “drain” on India, estimating a loss of $45 trillion (modern value) from 1765 to 1938, debunks the notion that railways and telegraphs were British benevolence—revealing they were funded by Indian taxes—and highlights widespread cultural theft from colonial powers.

However, critics argue the exclusions downplay significant chapters of India’s resistance. Tipu Sultan, known as the “Tiger of Mysore” who led four major wars between 1767 and 1799 with innovations like iron cased rockets, is a key figure lost in this narrative, the Indian Express reported.

The textbook had also raised eyebrows for depicting Babur as a “brutal and ruthless conqueror who slaughtered entire populations of cities”, Akbar’s reign as a “blend of brutality and tolerance”, and Aurangzeb as one who demolished temples and gurdwaras.

NCERT explained the inclusion of these descriptions in a “Note on Some Darker Periods in History”, with one chapter including a cautionary statement that “no one should be held responsible today for events of the past”.