Among the latest set of revisions that the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has proposed in school textbooks are additions about findings from the DNA analysis of skeletal remains found at the archaeological site of Rakhigarhi in Haryana and the dropping of references to how the Narmada Dam project adversely affected tribals and drew them to displacement leading to greater destitution.
“That Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are social groups specially marked by poverty, powerlessness and social stigma,” are a few of the multiple deletions NCERT is making to its sociology textbooks for Class 12.
The new changes are yet to reflect in the online version of the revised textbooks, but NCERT, in a document where it has enlisted all changes, has highlighted these.
