In this interview, journalist and author Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay talks to history professor Farhat Hasan about the motivations as well as implications of these changes.
Some drastic changes were recently made by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in the history and political science syllabi for students of classes 11 and 12. These changes are being denounced by historians, politicians as well as ordinary citizens for being politically driven and vengeful. In this interview, journalist and author Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay talks to history professor Farhat Hasan about the motivations as well as implications of these changes.