Those Who Hindutva Considers Its Icons Also Went Against What NCERT Text Books Are Claiming Now
S.N. Sahu | 18th July 2025 | The Wire
It was reported on July 17 that the National Council of Educational Research and Training’s newly published text books for class 8 portray various Mughal emperors as brutal and intolerant. It describes that the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals followed the policies of religious intolerance. It also adds questionable notes at the end. According to NCERT such new descriptions of Mughal are based on the New Education Policy 2000 and NCF-SE 2023.
While Babur is depicted as “brutal and ruthless conqueror, slaughtering entire populations of cities”, Akbar’s rule is characterised as “blend of brutality and tolerance”, and Aurangzeb as one who destroyed temples and gurdwaras. Very preposterously the NCERT justifies the description of Mughal brutality and other distorted versions by explaining it in a “Note on Some Darker Periods in History”…