This query was raised a few months after an NCERT panel suggested that ‘India’ should be called as ‘Bharat’ in all Social Science textbooks upto Class 12
This suggestion has been made by the 2022 Social Science committee, and will be implemented from next academic year, the committee's chairman Prof C.I. Issac (Retd) said.
"Since the development of new syllabus and textbooks is in process and for that purpose, various Curricular Area Groups of domain experts are being notified by the NCERT, it is too premature to comment on the news," the NCERT said in a statement.
The 33 academicians who have also asked NCERT to drop their names from political science textbooks include Kanti Prasad Bajpai, the former JNU professor who currently serves as the vice dean at National University Singapore; Pratap Bhanu Mehta, the former vice-chancellor of Ashoka University; Rajeev Bhargava among others.
Yogendra Yadav has asked NCERT to remove his name from the political science books as chief advisor, while NCERT said that the request is out of the question.