Mughals are no longer covered in the class 12 CBSE and UP Board curriculum

According to a top official, CERT, the top advisory body for the Centre and states on school education, has revised the history curriculum and removed the Chapters on ‘Kings and Chronicles’ and ‘The Mughal Courts’ from the CBSE mediaeval History textbooks for Class 12.

New Delhi: For Class 12 students of the CBSE and UP boards, chapters on the Mughal empire will no longer be included in the history curricula. According to a senior official speaking to NDTV, NCERT, the leading federal and state advisory body on education, has revised the history curriculum and eliminated the chapters on “Kings and Chronicles” and “The Mughal Courts” from the CBSE mediaeval history textbooks for Class 12.

The Mughal court sections of the new class 12 history textbooks from NCERT will not be used in the government schools of Uttar Pradesh.

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According to Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak, “We teach our students using NCERT books…whatever is there in the revised edition will be followed.”

Deepak Kumar, additional chief secretary for elementary and secondary education, confirmed the development. From the 2023–24 school year on, state schools will use NCERT textbooks whenever they are available in the revised edition, Mr. Kumar told PTI.

Books for Political Science in Grade 12 have also been updated. “Rise of Popular Movements” discusses the rise of the Socialist and Communist parties in India, and “Era of One-Party Dominance” discusses the rule of the Congress in the years following independence.

Changes have also been made to the textbooks for Classes 10 and 11. Chapters on ‘Democracy and Diversity,’ ‘Popular Struggles and Movements,’ and ‘Confrontation of Cultures’ have been removed from Class 10 Political Science textbooks, as have chapters on ‘Central Islamic lands’ and ‘Confrontation of Cultures’ from Class 11 History textbooks.Confirming these changes, a senior NCERT official stated that the syllabus will be implemented beginning this year (2023-24).

In April 2022, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) streamlined its curricula, which led to the announcement of many of these changes. Some state boards use NCERT textbooks in addition to those used by CBSE schools.

The content of the textbooks has been rationalised for a number of reasons, including duplication with similar content in other subject areas in the same class and similar content included in the lower or higher classes on the same subject, according to a note from the NCERT that listed the changes.