🚨SCOOP: Modi govt has QUIETLY made last-minute changes in the new social science textbooks which hit market recently.

These controversial tweaks were LEFT OUT of #NCERT's official announcement on "rationalised content" last year.

Details in 🧵
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The most glaring 👀of them are the deletions pertaining to Mahatma Gandhi's assassination

DELETED 👉: Ban imposed on the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) by the union govt after Gandhi's death dropped from Class Political Science textbook

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EXHIBIT B:
Sentences on how Gandhi's steadfast pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity provoked Hindu extremists have been removed from the Class 12 Political Science textbook

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This is what the old and re-printed version of the pages look like 👇

(Source: Class 12 textbook 'Politics in India since Independence)
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Wait, there are MORE deletions pertaining to Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse.

In the Class 12 History textbook titled ‘Themes In Indian History Part III’, NCERT has dropped a “Brahmin” reference to #Godse and that he was “the editor of an extremist Hindu newspaper”.
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ANOTHER reference to the Gujarat riots deleted 👇

DROPPED: A paragraph from Class 11 Sociology book that talks about how class, religion & ethnicities lead to segregation of residential areas & cites 2002 Gujarat riots to illustrate how communal violence furthers ghettoisation https://t.co/izTcBZXruc

With the removal of the above paragraph 👆, NCERT has purged all references to Gujarat riots from its textbooks!

The above was the only surviving reference to the 2002 riots in NCERT textbooks.
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The Council had earlier announced deletion of two references to the Gujarat riots from the Class 12 political science textbook ‘Politics in India Since Independence & the Class 12 sociology textbook ‘Indian Society’

We had reported that last year: https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/express-investigation-part-1-from-emergency-to-gujarat-riots-lessons-of-past-deleted-from-textbooks-of-future-7976207/

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The above (hush-hush) deletions are among the most sweeping changes in school textbooks since the NDA government came to power in 2014.
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These are in addition to the ones OFFICIALLY announced by the NCERT last year. You can find details on ALL deletions in the NCERT social science textbooks in our three-part investigation from June 2022.

You can read all three parts here: https://twitter.com/RitikaChopra__/status/1642920642906402820?s=20
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Link to our video story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSjN-DXH-es&t=202s