Maulana Abul Kalam Azad references removed from Class 11 NCERT textbook

The mention of freedom fighter and country's first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad has been removed from the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT)'s Class 11 political science syllabus. Last year, to rationalize the syllabus, NCERT had removed some sections on Gujarat riots, Mughal court, Emergency, Cold War, Naxal movement on the basis of some parts being irrelevant.

Earlier it was written in a paragraph line of this chapter - "Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Azad, Rajendra Prasad and Sardar Patel used to participate in the meeting of the Constituent Assembly." Now the name of Maulana Azad has been removed from this line in the new book.

Maulana Azad played a very important role in India's freedom movement. He was the President of Congress twice. After independence, he became the first education minister of the country and remained in this post for a long time.

NCERT made this claim

The note on rationalization of the book did not mention any change in the Class 11 Political Science syllabus. NCERT, however, has claimed that there has been no curtailment in the syllabus this year. The syllabus was rationalized in June last year.

Council chief Dinesh Saklani said on Wednesday that it could be an inadvertent mistake that last year's syllabus rationalization exercise did not announce the removal of some portions. The amended line will now read, "Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel or BR Ambedkar usually presided over these committees."

Excerpts removed from the tenth chapter as well

In the tenth chapter of this book, "Philosophy of the Constitution", the reference to the conditional merger of Jammu and Kashmir has been removed. In this book, this paragraph was removed…The merger of Jammu and Kashmir with the Indian Union was based on the commitment of autonomy under Article 370 of the Constitution".

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