Certain topics detailing the circumstances around Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination were among those removed from Class 12 textbooks last year as part of syllabus cuts meant to lower the burden on students wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, the NCERT said on Wednesday.
A comparison of the new Class 12 political science textbook titled “Politics in India since Independence” with its older version showed that certain references to Mahatma Gandhi have been deleted