Indian History Congress Opposes Changes to History Curriculum by Central Board of Secondary Education

The choice to exclude the Mughal dynasty's history will deprive the current generation of knowledge of an age that brought India political unity, it argued.

on Apr 12, 2023

Indian History Congress Opposes Changes to History Curriculum by Central Board of Secondary Education

The Indian History Congress has voiced concern over the Central Board of Secondary Education's recent decision to modify history textbooks and curricula.

In a statement released Monday, IHC president Kesavan Veluthat and secretary professor Nadeem Ali Rezavi stated that all scholars who embrace "rational scientific knowledge" considered this method wrong and unacceptable.

The choice to exclude the Mughal dynasty's history will deprive the current generation of knowledge of an age that brought India political unity, it argued.

According to the IHC statement, it would also deprive this generation of knowing the significance of Emperor Akbar's policy of religious tolerance and the cultural and intellectual advances that helped give rise to the ideals of contemporary Indian society.

It was a sign of the general policy, it claimed, that "even the story related to Mahatma Gandhi's killing has been trifled with."

The remark follows the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) deleting various parts of the curriculum, including lectures on Mughal courts, from its class 12 textbooks, claiming "overlapping" and "irrelevant" grounds.

According to the Indian History Congress, such a restricted communal approach to history is anathema to the notion of any contemporary progressive society of this day.