New Delhi: A high-level committee for social sciences set up by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to revise the school curriculum has recommended replacing 'India' with 'Bharat' in the school textbooks of all classes, according to panel chairman C I Issac.
"The panel has suggested replacing the name 'India' with 'Bharat' in the textbooks, introducing 'classical history' instead of 'ancient history' in the curriculum and including the Indian Knowledge System (IKS) in the syllabus for all subjects," said Issac, who is also a historian and a close associate of Sangh Parivar organisations since several decades.
Issac further said the committee has recommended highlighting "Hindu victories" in various battles in the textbooks. "Our failures are presently mentioned in the textbooks. But our victories over the Mughals and sultans are not," said Isaac, who is also a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR).
NCERT officials, however, said no decision has been taken yet on the panel's recommendations. The NCERT is revising the curriculum of the school textbooks in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The council recently constituted a 19-member National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee (NSTC) to finalise the curriculum, textbooks and learning material for these classes.
Other members of the committee include ICHR Chairperson Raghuvendra Tanwar, Vandana Mishra, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Vasant Shinde, former vice-chancellor of the Deccan College Deemed University, and Mamta Yadav, who teaches sociology in a Haryana government school.
(With PTI inputs)
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