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The government on Friday admitted in the Rajya Sabha that four history school textbooks of the National Council of Educational Research and Training, prescribed for school children, had been found to contain factual errors, biases and colouration, and added that steps were being taken to rectify them.
The Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Rita Verma, told the House in a written reply that objectionable references had been found in renowned historian Romila Tapar's book Ancient India, prescribed for class six, and Ram Sharan Sharma's Ancient India, prescribed for class 11 students.
Verma said two other school textbooks by historian couple Arjun and Indira Dev, prescribed for class eleven, and by Satish Chandra on Medieval India, had also been found to contain objectionable matter, which had triggered protests from different quarters.
Verma said NCERT was developing textbooks anew based on a new syllabus and due care was being taken to ensure that these books did not contain any references likely to hurt the sentiments of any particular community.
The new textbooks would be introduced from the next academic session, Verma said.
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