Another 33 Political Scientists Ask NCERT to Remove Their Names From Textbooks
15 June 2023 | The Wire
A group of 33 scholars who at various stages were a part of the National Council for Educational Research and Training’s Textbook Development Committee have asked that their names be deleted from the political science textbooks they contributed to because of the “unilateral” changes made by NCERT.
The scholars say that despite differing views, they had worked together to create “a truly remarkable set of school textbooks in political science”. However, the NCERT has now made a number of crucial changes and deletions to these textbooks. “The decision of who decides what is unacceptable and what is desirable has been kept rather opaque, violating the core principles of transparency and contestation that, we believe, underlies academic knowledge production,” their letter states.