Naveen Patnaik Slams NCERT for Excluding Paika Rebellion from History Textbook
22 July 2025 | The Wire
Another front has opened up against the BJP in Odisha, this time over school curriculum, with former chief minister Naveen Patnaik targeting NCERT for exclusion of the Paika rebellion, of great significance to Odiyas. The Union education minister, considered the topmost Odisha leader from the BJP, Dharmendra Pradhan, has added to the significance of the attack by Patnaik.
Naveen Patnaik has written that he is “deeply concerned to know that the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has dropped Odisha’s Paika Rebellion or Paika Bidroha from its text books.” Patnaik has termed the rebellion as a watershed in Odiya history…