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In an apparent blow to the government for the suppression of certain references in the new NCERT Class 12 textbooks, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal said on Wednesday that according to India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it is expected that modern indian history start from 2014. Kapil Sibal's attack on the government came after The Indian Express reported some deletions in the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) class 12 social science textbooks. In a tweet, Sibal said: "NCERT manuals: Deleted: 1) Gandhi's quest for Hindu Muslim unity 2) RSS ban 3) all references to Gujarat riots 4) protests which have become social movements in contemporary India. "According to modern Indian history Bharat of Modi ji, it should start from 2014..." the former union minister said. The BJP government came to power in 2014.
Earlier, it was reported that the Uttar Pradesh public schools will adopt from this academic session the new NCERT History Class 12 textbooks in which parts of the Mughal Courts have been removed.
As part of its "curriculum streamlining" exercise last year, NCERT removed parts of the curriculum, including lessons on Mughal courts, from its Class 12 textbooks, saying they "overlapped" and they were "irrelevant".
