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Mainstream, Vol 63 No 31, Aug 2, 2025

NCERT: History as a tool for promoting Divisive Hate | Ram Puniyani

Saturday 2 August 2025, by Ram Puniyani

National Centre for Education, Research and Training (NCERT) is the body taking the final decision about the content of school text books. Last couple of decades it has become more a vehicle of promoting communal view of history rather than presenting the objective and rational view of History to the young minds. As history is the important part of shaping the understanding of young minds, the communal tilt in its curriculum will surely worsen the prevailing hate against the community, which has been