PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2002 ID-1726
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All India Students' Association (AISA) 10.10.2002 .
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PUBLIC MEE liNG .
New NCERT Text books : Delete, Rewrite, Saffronise? .
Speakers .
Dr. J anaki Rajan, Director, SCERT. Delhi and noted educationist, Cll·:. Delhi University .
Prof. B.D. Chattopadhyay, CHS, Jt\'U .
Prof. Aditya Mukherjee, CHS, JNll .
Dr. PK Basant, Dept. ofHistory, Jamia A!fillia Jslamia .
Dr. Vishwa Mohan Jha, Delhi Unil·!·rsity Oct. 10, 2002 (tonight).
9.30 p.m..
Sutlej Mess .
Distort Facts, Communalise Minds : .
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Agenda ofthe New NCERT Textbooks .
Last month, a three judge bench of the Supreme Court removed the stay on the new textbooks based on the NCERT's .
source ofvalueswould not violate secular principles. Now, the first batch of newtextbooks have been released, and they NewCuniculum Framework. The verdict expressed the confidence that the NCERT's policy of taking religion as a major .
All learning, all textbook are 'value-based'. The question is-which values do Indian students need? Democratic, liberal,.
glaringly display how misplaced was the Supreme Court's faith in the secular, democratic orientation of the NCERT's cuniculum. modem, scientific values? Or Chauvinistic, communal, narrow-minded, backward values? The new textbooks blatantly .
The textbooks have been authored by the Sangh's communal hacks and mythmakers. and not by professional histori-ans. So it is no surprise that they are laughably full of factual errors, poor language, careless logic, even grammaticalundermine the former, and peddle the latter. .
and spelling errors. But it would be dangerous to ignore the sinister method in the madness of these texts. to miss the .
Behind the disjointed, clumsy, shoddy surface, the big picture is clear : the unmistakeable agenda is to communalise wood for the trees ! minds, and peddle the Sangh's distorted, fascist worldview as 'knowledge'. A small sample-.
The Class VI text deals with the caste system but carefully avoids discussing its oppressive, exploitative nature. .
It lumps the Harappan civilization under 'Vedic dvilization', to claim that the Aryans belonged to India : a myth .
designed to show that Hindus are 'original' Indians, while Muslims/Christians are "outsiders". .
The Class IX text. speaking of the period between 1757-1857, mentions the Widow Remarriage Act as one of the sources of 'Indian unrest' against the British, along with unemployment and encouragement to missionaries. It .
Repeatedly the textbooks tarnish the image of Muslim participation in the freedom struggle. The Class IX text deliberately avoids mentioning that this Act came about as a result of social reformers' demands to abolish Sati. .
asserts that Muslims participated in the 1857 struggle only because they dreamt of restoring MughaJ rule ! It says .
Muslims withdrew from the non-cooperation movement when the Khilafat institution was abolished in Turkey. .
The Class IX text holds only Muslim communalism responsible for the Partition and riots. and completely erases all .
mention of Hindu communalism as a trend, so much so that it even hides the fact that Gandhiji was killed by the Hindu fanatic Nathuram Godse. .
textbooks are partofthe RSS agenda to create a brainwashed generation ofModis, perfect citizens for a future Textbooks are the map which teachers in classrooms follow while guiding and shaping young minds. The new NCERT .
AISA invites you to a detailed discussion on the agenda and perspective ofthe new NCERT texts, with eminent .
Hindu Rashtra I .
educationists and historians. Scrap the Communal Textbooks I .
Struggle for Rational, Secular Education II .
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lnteshar Ahmad, Gen. Sec., AISA, J.N.U. .
Radhika Menon, President, AISA, J.N.U. .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2002 ID-1726
.
il - .
.
All India Students' Association (AISA) 10.10.2002 .
.
PUBLIC MEE liNG .
New NCERT Text books : Delete, Rewrite, Saffronise? .
Speakers .
Dr. J anaki Rajan, Director, SCERT. Delhi and noted educationist, Cll·:. Delhi University .
Prof. B.D. Chattopadhyay, CHS, Jt\'U .
Prof. Aditya Mukherjee, CHS, JNll .
Dr. PK Basant, Dept. ofHistory, Jamia A!fillia Jslamia .
Dr. Vishwa Mohan Jha, Delhi Unil·!·rsity Oct. 10, 2002 (tonight).
9.30 p.m..
Sutlej Mess .
Distort Facts, Communalise Minds : .
.
Agenda ofthe New NCERT Textbooks .
Last month, a three judge bench of the Supreme Court removed the stay on the new textbooks based on the NCERT's .
source ofvalueswould not violate secular principles. Now, the first batch of newtextbooks have been released, and they NewCuniculum Framework. The verdict expressed the confidence that the NCERT's policy of taking religion as a major .
All learning, all textbook are 'value-based'. The question is-which values do Indian students need? Democratic, liberal,.
glaringly display how misplaced was the Supreme Court's faith in the secular, democratic orientation of the NCERT's cuniculum. modem, scientific values? Or Chauvinistic, communal, narrow-minded, backward values? The new textbooks blatantly .
The textbooks have been authored by the Sangh's communal hacks and mythmakers. and not by professional histori-ans. So it is no surprise that they are laughably full of factual errors, poor language, careless logic, even grammaticalundermine the former, and peddle the latter. .
and spelling errors. But it would be dangerous to ignore the sinister method in the madness of these texts. to miss the .
Behind the disjointed, clumsy, shoddy surface, the big picture is clear : the unmistakeable agenda is to communalise wood for the trees ! minds, and peddle the Sangh's distorted, fascist worldview as 'knowledge'. A small sample-.
The Class VI text deals with the caste system but carefully avoids discussing its oppressive, exploitative nature. .
It lumps the Harappan civilization under 'Vedic dvilization', to claim that the Aryans belonged to India : a myth .
designed to show that Hindus are 'original' Indians, while Muslims/Christians are "outsiders". .
The Class IX text. speaking of the period between 1757-1857, mentions the Widow Remarriage Act as one of the sources of 'Indian unrest' against the British, along with unemployment and encouragement to missionaries. It .
Repeatedly the textbooks tarnish the image of Muslim participation in the freedom struggle. The Class IX text deliberately avoids mentioning that this Act came about as a result of social reformers' demands to abolish Sati. .
asserts that Muslims participated in the 1857 struggle only because they dreamt of restoring MughaJ rule ! It says .
Muslims withdrew from the non-cooperation movement when the Khilafat institution was abolished in Turkey. .
The Class IX text holds only Muslim communalism responsible for the Partition and riots. and completely erases all .
mention of Hindu communalism as a trend, so much so that it even hides the fact that Gandhiji was killed by the Hindu fanatic Nathuram Godse. .
textbooks are partofthe RSS agenda to create a brainwashed generation ofModis, perfect citizens for a future Textbooks are the map which teachers in classrooms follow while guiding and shaping young minds. The new NCERT .
AISA invites you to a detailed discussion on the agenda and perspective ofthe new NCERT texts, with eminent .
Hindu Rashtra I .
educationists and historians. Scrap the Communal Textbooks I .
Struggle for Rational, Secular Education II .
.
lnteshar Ahmad, Gen. Sec., AISA, J.N.U. .
Radhika Menon, President, AISA, J.N.U. .
.