Rajasthan government removes Savarkar’s ‘Veer’ honorific in Class 12 history textbook

The Ashok Gehlot-led government also made changes in other textbooks following the recommendations of a textbook review committee.

Scroll Staff

· Jun 14, 2019 · 12:12 pm

Rajasthan modifies Savarkar chapter in textbooks, he is no longer described as ‘brave revolutionary’

Education Minister Govind Singh Dotasra said it was not right to glorify Hindutva ideologues such as Savarkar and Deendayal Upadhyaya.

Scroll Staff

· May 14, 2019 · 04:31 pm

Opinion: Why it’s essential for school students to learn about religious violence in ancient India

Historian DN Jha’s ‘Against the Grain’, which challenges the Hindutva depiction of Indian history, could serve as a model for tackling this in textbooks.

Ajaz Ashraf

· May 01, 2018 · 08:00 am

Indian textbook publisher S Chand starts a new chapter by listing in the stock market

The sector is estimated to be worth $90 billion and is expected to reach $188 billion by 2020.

Manu Balachandran, qz.com

· Apr 28, 2017 · 07:30 pm

Wait for a kitten to die in a closed box to learn about air, suggests a Class 4 textbook

A federation of animal rights groups has asked PP Publications to stop distributing the environmental science book, ‘Our Green World’.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 08, 2017 · 05:40 pm

Why don’t our textbook publishers want to pay fiction writers?

Is this why textbooks continue to carry stories and poems by long-dead writers who won’t claim payment?

Subhadra Sen Gupta

· Jul 04, 2015 · 07:30 pm