With New Class 6 Textbook, NCERT Legitimises Hindu Right's 'Sarasvati' Claim
22 July 2024 | The Wire
Even as a number of school text books are in the process of revision, with multiple debatable additions and deletions, the National Council of Educational Research and Training has now released a new social science text book for Class 6 that unapologetically perpetuates historical myths espoused by the Hindu Right.
The new Class 6 social science text book Exploring Society: India and Beyond that replaces three separate text books of introductory history, political science, and geography has referred to the Indus Valley Civilisation or the Harappan Civilisation (known as the Sindhu Ghaati Sabhyata in Hindi) as the “Indus-Sarasvati” civilisation and “Sindhu-Sarasvati civilisation, foregrounding the Hindu Right’s contention that the desiccation of the mythical Sarasvati river led to the decline of the Harappan civilisation…