Sivankutty said the NEP 2020 has not been completely accepted in the country as Tamil Nadu has rejected it in entirety and Karnataka has only agreed to implement some portions of it.
Last year, chapters on Darwin's theory of evolution were removed from class 10 biology textbooks. The NCERT had said the changes were being made to reduce the content load on students, in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The idea of a composite India was passed on to us as an inheritance by our iconic nationalists and freedom fighters. It is something we need to respect while we go through the exercise of rewriting history textbooks.
Every organisation, including the BJP and RSS, has the right to present and propagate their views, but textbooks should not be purged in accordance with the agenda of the party in power, Salar writes
In a statement, which was signed by historians and academics, including Mridula Mukherjee, Irfan Habib, Apoorvanand, Upinder Singh and Uma Chakrabarti, among others, they said the “selective dropping” of chapters and passages was of “great concern”.