Karnataka govt decides to drop ‘controversial, objectionable texts’ from faculty textbooks, revises syllabus to exclude chapters on Hindutva, Veer Savarkar

The state authorities of Karnataka has ordered 18 modifications in Kananda and Social Science subjects for lessons 6 to 10, simply days after the Karnataka Cabinet permitted the revision of college textbooks to reverse the modifications made throughout the earlier BJP administration. 

According to experiences, the Karnataka Textbook Society launched an inventory of revisions to disclose that RSS founder KB Hedgewar’s ‘Nijavada Adarsha Purusha Yaragabeku’ lesson that was included within the Class 10 textbook has been changed by ‘Sukumara Swamiya Kathe’ written by Shivakotyacharya.

The poem ‘Kalavannu Geddavaru’ by KT Gatti, which starred Hindu freedom fighter Veer Savarkar, has been changed within the Class 8 Kannada textbook with ‘Blood Group’ by Vijayamala Ranganath.

Madhu Bangarappa, the state’s minister of major and secondary schooling, declared on Thursday that each one the modifications made by the BJP authorities in 2022 have been undone. “Whatever changes they have done last year, we have changed it and reintroduced whatever was there last to last year. In the interest of the children, we have done the least now. That is only in the Kannada language from class 6 to 10, and social studies from classes 6 to 10,” he mentioned.

Additionally, the category 8 Kannada textbook now contains the interpretation of ‘Magalige Bareda Patra’ written by Jawaharlal Nehru, the primary Prime Minister of India, and translated by Siddanahalli Krishna Sharma. The lesson launched by the earlier BJP administration- Parampalli Narasimha Aithal’s play ‘Bhoo Kailasa,’ has additionally been eliminated. Yudha by Sara Aboobacker has been substituted for Shatavadhani R. Ganesh’s ‘Shreshta Bharatiya Chintanegalu’ within the Class 10 Kannada textbook.

A Hindutva chief’s prose, ‘Taayi Bharatiya Amara Putraru,’ has been eradicated from the Class 10 Kannada textbook, amongst different revisions. Additionally, the board has changed the category 10 Kannada textbook’s Shreshta Bharatiya Chintanegalu by Shatavadhani Ganesh with Yudha by Sara Aboobacker.

The Congress authorities has included classes on the ‘Culture of the Vedic Period,’ ‘Rise of new Religions,’ and ‘Human Rights’ within the social science textbook for sophistication 6. In the chapter on princely states within the class 7 social science textbook, they’ve added sections on ‘Women Social Reformers’ and ‘Women Freedom Fighters,’ in addition to data on the Wadiyar rulers, Sir M Visvesvaraya, and Sir Mirza Ismail.

Moreover, the Class 10 Social Studies textbook has modified to advertise linguistic delight. Sentences that beforehand conveyed regionalism and portrayed linguistic delight as narrow-mindedness compared to nationalism have been faraway from the chapter titled “Bharathakke Iruva Savalugalu Matthe Pariharagalu” (Challenges and Solutions that lie forward of India).

The majority of the weather that had been carried out by a committee led by creator Baragur Ramachandrappa between 2013 and 2018 whereas the Congress administration was in energy have been taken again by the textbook committee. According to the state authorities, the modifications had been made following a overview by subject material specialists. All faculties would obtain the amendments as a corrigendum, and the division’s web site would additionally make the modifications public.

Notably, the modifications have been launched solely a month after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured 66 seats within the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections and misplaced the state to Congress who received 135 seats. The Congress in its manifesto earlier had pledged to undo the curriculum set by the BJP to textbooks. The modifications had been reportedly made after about 30 teachers and writers met with CM Siddaramaiah on May 29 in Bengaluru and introduced him with a memorandum outlining a number of requests for reforming the schooling system, together with modifications to textbooks and the outlawing of the hijab in academic settings.

The state who has excluded the chapters on Hindutva and Veer Savarkar has claimed that the textbook revision is in favor of the scholars. The mentioned revision was selected June 6 this yr, to drop any ‘controversial and objectionable texts’ from the educating, examination, and analysis course of.