AGRA: The largest body of historians in the country, the Indian History Congress (IHC), has objected to the proposed changes of school textbooks, saying that it is being done for political, not academic, reasons.
At the beginning of the year, the Rajya Sabha secretariat had notified that a change in school textbook curriculum would be discussed by a parliamentary standing committee. In what it called a “reform”, it said the focus would be on removing “unhistorical facts” and “distortions about our national heroes”, and on ensuring “equal or proportionate references to all periods of Indian history”. Public responses were invited till June 30 and the deadline was later extended till July 15, when the IHC sent its response.
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