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Express matched NCERT’s revisions with content in 21 history, political science and sociology textbooks for Classes 6 to 12 — found sweeping changes
Reprinted books with rationalised content hit the market only recently, just in time for the 2023-24 academic year.
As part of syllabus "rationalistion" exercise, the 2002 Gujarat riots and the Emergency imposed in 1975 is among the content that has been dropped from textbooks of classes 6-12.
These deletions from the Class XII textbook are among the series of other prominent removals and revisions – including the 2002 Gujarat riots, Emergency, Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision of building dams, sedition law, and Naxalism – in NCERT textbooks.
NCERT has dropped several topics from textbooks of Classes 6 to 12 in an effort to rationalise the syllabus for the academic session 2022-23. Noteworthy topics include the Gujarat Riots, the Cold War, and Mughal Courts. Check the full lists of deleted syllabus here.