Amid the accusations of the saffronoisation of the NCERT curriculum triggered by the changes in textbooks, council’s director Dinesh Prasad Saklani on Sunday denounced such claims and said that the history is taught to the students to know about facts, not to make the school a battleground.
On the modification of the reference to the Bari masjid demolition and Gujarat riots in textbooks, Saklani argued that teaching about riots can create violent and depressed citizens and said that the changes in the textbooks are part of the revision and should not be a subject of “hue and cry.”
