In the backdrop of an RTI reply by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) stating that it has no document or recordsdata pertaining to the false data included in relation to Mughal tyrant Aurungzeb within the historical past textbooks printed by it, a Parliamentary Standing Committee on Wednesday met with Representatives of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-linked Bharatiya Shiksha Mandal and Shiksha Sanskriti Nyas, and educationists JS Rajput and Shankar Sharan, to debate the revision of historical past textbooks utilized in colleges throughout India. BJP MP Vinay Sahasrabuddhe heads the committee.The NCERT historical past textbook for sophistication 12, titled ‘Themes of Indian History’, falsely claims in one of many paragraphs, “All Mughal emperors gave grants to support the building and maintenance of places of worship. Even when temples were destroyed during the war, grants were later issued for their repair – as we know from the reigns of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.”This coupled with the truth that NCERT has no proof of the assertion, has invited large outrage on social media. As such, the assembly of the parliamentary committee to listen to depositions of assorted stakeholders assumes unapparelled significance. It is a minimum of a sign of the truth that the Modi authorities is lastly initiating an enormous overhaul of the historical past syllabus taught to prone younger minds throughout the nation. For far too lengthy, the historical past textbooks – replete with Marxist lies, have been indoctrinating younger minds into believing a model of historical past that’s extremely distorted and corrupted. Foreign invaders proceed to be glorified in Indian historical past textbooks, even because the civilisational ethos of the subcontinent is just not even minutely mirrored within the present historical past curriculum. However, the federal government is now seeking to change the identical.Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education chairman and senior BJP chief Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, talking on the problem, mentioned, “It has been over two decades since textbook reforms have been discussed at the platform of a Parliamentary Committee. We thought it fit to apply our mind considering the new National Education Policy is in place and new syllabus is being written.”Reportedly, the committee had met to debate the necessity to take away references to ‘un-historical facts and distortions about our national heroes’, to make sure ‘proportionate references to all periods of Indian history’ and to ‘highlight the role of great women in Indian history’.Read extra: NCERT’s glorification of Aurangzeb backfires as they couldn’t produce a single supply to show the tyrant’s greatnessApart from members of the committee, the assembly was attended by ex-NCERT director JS Rajput and Professor on the NCERT Shankar Sharan, in addition to representatives of the BharatiyaShikshan Mandal and the Shiksha SanskritiNyas. The Shikshan Mandal emphasised the necessity to write historical past books whereas paying shut consideration to India’s cultural unity and linguistic heritage.The Mandal additionally proposed to include numerous themes within the historical past textbooks, reminiscent of the fantastic historical past of sacrifices of assorted segments of Indian society for preserving cultural values, civilisational improvement of the subcontinent from the Vedic ages to the current, social inclusion and India and its cultural boundaries.The Indian Express has reported that the division of faculty schooling in its submission earlier than the parliamentary committee knowledgeable members that NCERT is within the means of organising a panel to analyse and handle complaints with regard to “un-historical facts and distortions” about nationwide heroes and occasions.The NCERT and numerous boards of schooling are at the moment within the means of revamping their curricula throughout topics and streams to carry the identical in sync with the National Curriculum Framework (NCF), 2020. Now, concurrently, the Modi authorities can also be pushing for an entire overhaul of the historical past syllabi taught to college students throughout the nation. Long overdue, the false glorification of Mughals and their predecessors will lastly be dumped within the trash can, and true Indian historical past can be included within the historical past textbooks of the nation.