Part 1 of the Express Investigation: From the Emergency to the Gujarat Riots, previous lessons are being erased from future textbooks.

Removing chapters on protests and social movements, including those led by the Narmada Bachao Andolan, Dalit Panthers, and Bharatiya Kisan Union, removing references to the 2002 Gujarat riots, dropping passages dealing with the Emergency’s draconian impact on people and institutions, and removing references to the Narmada Bachao Andolan, Dalit Panthers, and Bharatiya Kisan Union. Since the NDA administration took office in 2014, these are some of the most significant modifications in social science school textbooks.

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) conducted a textbook “rationalization” exercise for all subjects six months ago, which resulted in these revisions. It comes ahead of a projected overhaul of the national school curriculum (National Curriculum Framework or NCF), which will see NCERT textbooks undergo yet another modification.