Textbooks as Battlegrounds: The Perils of NCERT’s New Portrait of Mahmud of Ghazni
A quiet rewrite of the past risks hardening the present A quiet but seismic change has slipped into India’s classrooms. The new Class 7 NCERT social science textbook, Exploring Society: India and Beyond, devotes six pages to the “Ghaznavid Invasions,” recasting Mahmud of Ghazni as a fanatical iconoclast bent on forcing his version of Islam […]
