School textbooks have become the latest battleground for Hindu nationalism in India, as education officials have deleted key passages about Muslim rule during the Mughal empire
,” says Aditya Mukherjee, an Indian historian who taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University for more than four decades and has closely followed efforts to communalize textbooks. “It doesn’t happen all of a sudden. It is preceded by this kind of isolation of a community…so that in ordinary life people…don’t read their history; all they hear about them is how they are terrorists.”
In the absence of sound history being taught in schools, some organizations are trying to provide an accurate portrayal in other ways. Eshan Sharma,, a student-led history collective, features free conversations with prominent historians, which are available online. “The internet is a liberal medium; it allows you to create a repository that could be looked at by generations long after we are gone,” says Sharma.
But efforts like Sharma’s may not be enough to match the influence of the NCERT textbooks used throughout the country. “Unless there is a political change, we are not going to be able to combat this,” says Mukherjee.he original version of this story misstated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role as an official in Gujarat. He was Chief Minister, not State Governor
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