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The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) dropped some references to the Babri Masjid, the politics of Hindutva, the 2002 Gujarat riots, and minorities, in its political science textbook for Class 12 that will come into effect from this academic session, adding to a growing list of textbook changes and updates on sensitive topics in recent years.E)..
The NCERT textbooks are taught in schools under the Central Board of Secondary Education, to which roughly 30,000 schools in India are affiliated..
In a chapter titled Gender, Religion and Caste, a line that said, Human rights groups in our country have agreed that most of the victims of the communal riots in our country are people from religious minorities..
They have demanded that the government take special steps to protect religious minorities was changed to, Human rights groups in our country have demanded that the government should take special steps to prevent communal riots and protect religious minorities..
The most recent such example is the series of dams being built on the Narmada, where most of the costs and benefits seem to flow disproportionately to different communities and regions, was changed to: The coming of private property in land has also adversely affected tribals, whose community-based forms of collective ownership were placed at a disadvantage..
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