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‘Include section on Vedas, review portrayal of freedom fighters in school textbooks’: Parliamentary Committee on Education

A Parliamentary committee on education has stated that educational content for students should be "free of biases".

“It projects hatred towards British,” said filmmaker Indraadip Dasgupta while rejecting Sardar Udham’s entry to Oscar 2022

A film based on one of the bloodiest parts of our history is 'too Indian' and 'hateful towards British' to be part of Oscars, as per jury member Indraadip Dasgupta

Author Vikram Sampath hits back at ‘historians’ and trolls who attacked him for saying that history textbooks give prominence to Muslim invaders

Historian Vikram Sampath hits back at 'historians' and trolls with evidence how history textbooks glorify Muslim and ignore indigenous rulers

Govt of India’s Know India website hails Mughal rule as ‘greatest ever’, Ministry issues clarification

Ministry of Culture's website hails Mughal rule as 'greatest empire ever'.

School textbooks: Tools of knowledge or weapons of cultural genocide?

Narratives are not the truth; rather they nudge you to understand the truth in a particular way. They are never neutral or innocent; they are always strategic.

Overemphasis on Mughals, caste issues, no mention of Hindu kings, saints: Think-tank flags distortion in NCERT books before Parliamentary panel

Think-tank tells parliamentary committee on education that NCERT books pay disproportionately high attention to Mughal rulers.

After humiliating Hindu students, Rutgers issues a follow up ‘apology’, but stays silent on alleged ‘historian’ Audrey Truschke: What we know so far

The Rutgers University, which has backed Audrey Truschke and her bigotry against Hindus, said that they value Hindu students

As #RacistRutgers trends on Twitter, read details of the accusations against Audrey Truschke by Rutgers University students

Students accused Audrey Truschke of advocating that Hinduism is inherently oppressive, racist, misogynistic, and violent.

Activist sends legal notice to make amends in NCERT books after RTI reveals no evidence of Mughals giving grant for temple repairs

RTI activist says history should be based on facts and not imagination and hence has sought to make amendments to books which claim Mughal rulers like Aurangzeb gave grants for temple repair work.

‘Indian history was written by colonisers or their slaves, it is being undone now’: PM Modi inaugurates Maharaja Suheldev Memorial UP

PM Modi virtually laid the foundation stone of Maharaj Suheldev Memorial and a host of other beautification and development projects in UP’s Bahraich.

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