The Karnataka government on Saturday ordered revision in the content of Kannada and Social Science textbooks of Classes VI to X, with 18 major changes, including 15 replacements of lessons. The Congress, ahead of the elections, had promised to undo some of the changes made in the textbooks during the previous BJP regime if voted to power.
Among the significant changes announced by the Karnataka Textbook Society are replacing RSS founder K.B. Hedgewar’s ‘Nijavada Adarsha Purusha Yaragabeku’ with ‘Sukumara Swamiya Kathe’ by Shivakotyacharya in Class X Kannada textbook and ‘Kalavannu Geddavaru’ by K.T. Gatti on Hindutva ideologue V.D. Savarkar with ‘Blood Group’ by Vijayamala Ranganath in Class VIII Kannada textbook.
Other changes include replacing ‘Bhoo Kailasa’, a play by Parampalli Narasimha Aithal, with ‘Magalige Bareda Patra’, a translation of Jawaharlal Nehru’s letter to Indira Gandhi, in Class VIII Kannada textbook. Shatavadhani R. Ganesh’s ‘Shreshta Bharatiya Chintanegalu’ has been replaced with Sara Aboobacker’s ‘Yudha’ in Class X Kannada textbook.
