history books

NCERT removes Khalistan reference from textbook

A committee of experts recommended that two lines be dropped from seventh chapter — Regional Aspirations — of the rationalised Class 12 political science textbook

Distortions of history in textbooks will have to be removed: H.C. Mahadevappa

The Hindu Bureau

What is the connection between the last maharaja of Mysore and music?

In the face of violence, Manipuri women writers have forged a new path

The uprising of 1857, and Meerut’s role in the first war for India’s Independence

People hold placards and shout slogans during a Kranti March from Jantar Mantar to Parliament street in New Delhi, demanding martyrdom status for freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Rajguru, Sukhdev and others.

Review of Bhagat Singh — A Life in Revolution: A legend in life and death

Review of Sankar’s Dear Reader — A Writer’s Memoir: In memory of memory

Must the idea of a city die? | Historian Peter Frankopan discusses climate change and his new book ‘The Earth Transformed’

“It is widely believed that our understanding of history comes from textbooks. This is not entirely the case” Photo: ncert.nic.in

The limited role of textbooks in history

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NCERT met 25 experts and 16 CBSE teachers for syllabus rationalisation: Union Education Ministry

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Review of Sudeshna Guha’s A History of India Through 75 Objects: Everlasting things inside a book

An oral history recording in progress

Stories of the Partition of India, based on the largest South-Asian oral history survey ever, now compiled in a book

Deepa Alexander

Emperor Jahangir

Review of Nandini Das’s Courting India: Roe’s diplomatic woes

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Why Dalit writing is a social movement with the power to change lives

After resigning from Nehru’s cabinet, Ambedkar returned to Mumbai. On November 18, 1951, a function was organised at the Victoria Terminus Railway Station by the Scheduled Castes Federation’s Bombay state unit and the Socialist Party to welcome him and Savita back. When the veteran Non-Brahmin leader and close associate of Ambedkar, Raobahadur S.K. Bole, could not find a seat, Ambedkar sat him on his lap.

Ambedkar wanted an ethical base to democracy: Ashok Gopal

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AP History Congress panel slams NCERT decision to erase chapters on Moghuls from history textbooks

The Hindu Bureau

The Humayun’s Tomb.

Understanding the Mughals: there are lessons to be learnt from every king

The Uttar Pradesh Board decided to remove topics related to the Mughal empire from history textbooks for Standard 12 after the NCERT decision.

U.P. to follow revised NCERT textbooks; topics on Mughal empire to be missed

A painting depicting the revolt of 1857 in Lucknow.

For a historian, dynasties are not important: Amar Farooqui

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How caste discrimination permeates the language of meritocracy on campus

Barathi Nakkeeran

‘Unlike his portrayal in England, Tipu’s afterlife in India has been more mixed’

Why Tipu Sultan must be killed, again