History Turns On Its Head In Rajasthan's New Textbooks
It is perceptively said that those who control the present rewrite the past. We know that well in India. Rajasthan for long has had the politics of re-working its history, except never before a single political party had absolute power. The BJP's strength in the state assembly allows it to work its ideology in an overarching way. As a new session of school starts, at India Matters, we look at the impact of this in school textbooks, education curriculum and the debates of history that arise.
