In the Hindi textbook of Class VIII, chapters with Urdu words have also been removed. The Indian Express reported today that neither Nehru nor Godse find mention in the Social Studies textbook for Class VIII in Rajasthan after some "curriculum re-structuring" by the State Institute of Education Research and Training based in Udaipur. “This is taking saffronisation to the next level," Sachin Pilot, the Congress Party's president in Rajasthan, told the newspaper. "They should first know about Rajasthan, then about India and in higher classes they can learn about the world,” he said. The father of modern India, | APNEW DELHI -- Students of Class VIII in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Rajasthan will no longer learn that Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first Prime Minister, and they won't be taught that Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist, assassinated Mahatma Gandhi.

Source: Huffington Post May 07, 2016 21:46 UTC