-The Hindu ‘It did not seem to be too happy with recommendations’ The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Wednesday decided to hold further consultations on the S.K. Thorat Committee report that recommended the removal of 21 cartoons and words, which, it said, were “ambiguous,” negative or showed politicians and bureaucrats in an ‘incorrect’ way, from the Social Science and Political Science textBooks for Classes IX-XII. Sources in the NCERT...
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Narasimha Rao performed puja during demolition of Babri Masjid: Book
-PTI Yet another book has levelled an allegation that P V Narasimha Rao had connived at the demolition of Babri Masjid, claiming that the late Prime Minister had sat in a puja when the kar sevaks began pulling it down and rose only when it was over. The charge relating to the demolition on Dec 6, 1992 has been made by eminent journalist Kuldip Nayar in his soon-to-be released autobiography "Beyond the...
More »Here are some of the cartoons deemed unsuitable for school-Anubhuti Vishnoi
-The Indian Express It is not just 21 cartoons that have been deemed “inappropriate” for NCERT textBooks. The Thorat Committee has frowned on much more, disapproving of “ too many cartoons of Mrs Indira Gandhi” in the Class XII textBooks, and objecting to some Amul advertisements. Set up in May following MPs’ objections to political cartoons in textBooks, the six-member committee headed by ICSSR chairman S K Thorat vetted six textBooks that...
More »Cartoon row: Experts say Thorat panel ignored views-Anubhuti Vishnoi
-The Indian Express Prof M S S Pandian is not the sole dissenter as far as the Thorat committee’s recommendations on removal of cartoons from NCERT textBooks go. A number of academic experts roped in by the committee to review Political Science textBooks, which are at the centre of a controversy over “controversial” cartoons, also echoed views similar to Pandian and fully supported the cartoons. Set up in May following MPs’ objections...
More »"The politically incorrect need not be educationally inappropriate"- MSS Pandian
The dissent note by a member of a government appointed committee reviewing textBooks of political science avers that the pedagogic intent and methods of the NCERT textBooks are sound and they encourage critical dialogue among learners. M.S.S. Pandian (mathiaspandian57@gmail.com) is member, the NCERT Committee for Reviewing the TextBooks of Social Science/Political Science and teaches history at the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. It...
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