Is NCERT Rewriting Medieval Indian History for Class 9?
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Is NCERT Rewriting Medieval Indian History for Class 9?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 6, 202628 min
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Last week the NCERT revised its book on medieval history for Class 9 students. The book, Understanding Society: India and Beyond, presents a long span of 700 years from 1000 AD to 1700 as one of resistance and resilience, a period when the Rajputs, the Jats, the Sikhs and the Ahoms resisted foreign invasions. The period is presented as the one in which the "Indian society not only defended itself from external threats but also preserved its traditions”. In many ways this book is a continuation of the process of presenting history through a new prism, a process which began in 2023 and has se...

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This is In Focus, the Hindu's current affairs podcast. to revise its ninth standard history book. The new edition of the book called Understanding Society, India and Beyond talks of the period 1200 to 1700 AD as a time of resistance, rebellion and basically the opposition of Indian powers

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to foreign invasions. period is projected as the one in which Indian society resisted foreign threats but also upheld local Indian traditions. In other words, there was invasion from the northwest frontier of India, but the Indian

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local powers resisted that invasion and kept their own independent streak alive. It also means that there is undermining of the contribution of the Mughals and in many ways ignoring or underplaying the shared past of India. Is it all that is to the book or do we have more?

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