Thiruvananthapuram: The changes being implemented by NCERT in school textbooks in the name of curriculum revision are part of the Sangh Parivar's Hindutvaization and aim to make the new generation propagators of Hindutva ideas, the Fraternity Movement's Kerala state secretariat has said. The recent move to remove the history of the Mughal dynasty and the Delhi Sultanate from the Class 7 social science textbook is the latest example of this.
The Sangh Parivar has been turning schools into Hindutva laboratories for decades by inserting Hindutva ideas into textbooks in Gujarat, distorting and omitting historical truths. The Mughal era was a time when India's GDP was at the top of the world. At that time, the country was at its peak in all other areas, including culture and crafts. There is a clever plan to exclude this golden phase in Indian history and include only things like the Kumbh Mela. The Sangh Parivar is trying to reconstruct its own history in the new curriculum, including removing the reference to Nadu Ram Godse as the 'editor of a radical Hindu newspaper', the Secretariat said.
NCERT is not implementing new reforms based on facts or in consultation with historians. Strong protests should be raised across the country against this trend. The Fraternity Movement will lead the agitations to resist the Sangh Parivar's attempts to make the new generation propagators of Hindutva ideas under the guise of curriculum reforms.
The Secretariat meeting also informed that the Fraternity Movement will organize programs including submitting a petition to MPs demanding their intervention in the matter.