The additional textbooks for higher secondary that were recently unveiled by the State government not only include content removed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) from the curriculum, but also touch on the State’s economic development, social movements, historical events, and contemporary landscape.
The six additional textbooks in four subjects – History, Political Science, Sociology, and Economics – have been brought out by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) following the NCERT’s deletion of topics and even entire lessons from the textbooks in the name of rationalisation.
The removal of content related to Partition and Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, Gujarat riots, and the Mughal kings and their courts had led to an outcry from various quarters, including from historians and academics.
