A Class Of Controversies: How NCERT’s Revised History Curriculum Politicises Education
Avantika Mehta | 05 September 2025 | Outlook
In August 2025, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) released two new modules titled ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ for Classes VI to XII. As of 2024 and early 2025, there are more than 27 million students enrolled in Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools, with approximately 20 million kids in India.
News of these additions to the CBSE school syllabus has made headlines.
In a section titled “Culprits of Partition,” the NCERT module says, “Ultimately, on August 15, 1947, India was divided. But this was not the doing of any one person. There were three elements responsible for the Partition of India: first, Jinnah, who demanded it; second, the Congress, which accepted it; and third, Mountbatten, who implemented it. But Mountbatten proved to be guilty of a major blunder.”…