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India: Politics Of History: Faiz, Mughals Dropped From Textbooks (NDTV, April 25, 2022)

28 April 2022

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The CBSE has made drastic cuts to the syllabus for classes 10 to 12. Chapters on democracy, diversity and central Islamic lands have been dropped. The translated excerpts from two Urdu poems by Faiz Ahmad Faiz have been excluded. What are the values that the education system should be imparting to Indian students, and is the process of the decision-making transparent?

https://www.ndtv.com/video/shows/breaking-views/politics-of-history-faiz-mughals-dropped-from-textbooks-630065#video-top-shows