Congress ‘Widely Opposed’ Partition Plan; ‘Savarkar’s Demand for Swaraj’ Added to Class 8 NCERT Revised Textbook
Sanjay Maurya | 08 July 2026 | Hindustan Times
The National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) has substantially rewritten portions of a chapter on India’s freedom struggle, recasting references to the Congress’s role in the Partition, adding a mention of VD Savarkar’s demand for Swaraj, and removing explicit references to Adolf Hitler from a section on Subhas Chandra Bose.
The Class 8 Social Science Part 1 textbook was released July 2025 and Part 2 on February 23, 2026….