New Rajasthan textbooks drop western writers

February 17, 2016 02:13

The BJP government in Rajasthan has omitted poems by the likes of John Keats, Thomas Hardy, William Blake, T S Eliot and Edward Lear from the revised Class VIII English textbooks.

They have been replaced by mostly lesser-known authors whose works have a regional flavour.

So while Hardy's When I Set Out For Lyonnesse, Eliot's Macavity: The Mystery Cat and Blake's The School Boy have been dropped, works such as My first visit to the bank, The Brave Lady of Rajasthan, Chittor and Sangita the brave girl have been included in the first lot of revised textbooks that have arrived at state textbook depots in Ajmer, Udaipur, Dausa, Bharatpur and Jaipur.

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