Rajasthan teachers tried – and failed – to counter textbooks rewritten to serve Hindutva propaganda

Even though they recognised the dangers of the new textbooks, the resource-starved school system left teachers with few options.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Nov 16, 2018 · 09:00 am

Inspired by the RSS, dictated by BJP minister: The inside story of Rajasthan’s textbook revisions

Books published by the RSS’s education wing were held up as a role model in a government meeting.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Nov 15, 2018 · 09:00 am

BJP’s major achievement in Rajasthan: Rewriting school textbooks to reflect RSS worldview

The new textbooks are not part of the election conversation but their impact could be long-lasting. The first in a three-part series.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Nov 14, 2018 · 09:00 am

DU professor explains why ‘university Dronacharyas’ want Kancha Ilaiah’s books dropped from syllabus

N Sukumar, professor of political science, says he is prepared to go to court to challenge the removal of the books on the Dalit perspective.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Oct 26, 2018 · 01:10 pm

RSS sets up panel to supervise saffronisation of education

Dinanath Batra will lead a committee that seems strangely like the Congress government's National Advisory Council, which the Bharatiya Janata Party had roundly criticised.

Dhirendra K Jha

· Aug 02, 2014 · 07:26 am

Blowing birthday candles is against Indian culture, says man who is now on Gujarat school library reading lists

The state has chosen nine books by Dina Nath Batra, the man who filed cases against Indologist Wendy Doniger's books on Hinduism, as supplementary literature meant to impart quality education.

Aarefa Johari

· Jul 26, 2014 · 06:00 am