Jawarharlal Nehru’s name removed from class VIII and XI textbooks in Rajasthan

Chapters penned by India’s first Prime Minister Jawarharlal Nehru have been removed from revised text books for class VIII and XI in Rajasthan.

The revision of text books for government schools began last year, two years after the BJP came to power in the state, and were completed in January this year.

‘Bharat-Mata‘, a chapter taught in the Hindi text book for class XI, taken from Nehru’s Discovery of India, has now been axed in the revised Hindi textbook, a copy of which is with TOI.

Chapters by renowned artist and Padma Vibushan Syed Haider Raza’s ‘Aatma Ka Tap’ and author Krishna Sobti’s ‘Miya Nasruddin’ have also been dropped by the textbook revise committee formed by the education minister Vasudev Devnani.

Extracts in the form of two chapters – Baroda Ka Boarding School and Ranipur Bazaar from the life sketch of late controversial painter Maqbool Fida Hussain – is also missing…timesofindia.indiatimes.com