As many as 45 changes in the Kannada and Social Studies textbooks, prescribed for classes between VI and X, were approved in the State Cabinet on Thursday that included the dropping of lessons on RSS founder K.B. Hedgewar and Hindutva ideologue V.D. Savarkar that were added by the previous BJP government.
A lesson written by Chakravarthi Sulibele was also dropped, while the Cabinet cleared adding back lessons on Savitribai Phule, B.R. Ambedkar, and Jawaharlal Nehru that had been dropped in the process of textbook revision undertaken by the previous BJP government.
