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Indian Opposition Decries New Schoolbook's Omission of Hindu Rage at Mahatma Gandhi
Channel News Asia ^ | 06 Apr 2023

Posted on 04/05/2023 3:32:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Indian opposition parties on Wednesday (Apr 5) condemned the removal from some schoolbooks of references to how independence hero Mahatma Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity angered some Hindu extremists and led to his assassination.

The new edition of a political science book for 17-18 year olds, published by the autonomous National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), also removed a reference to a year-long ban on the Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) after Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu hardliner, Nathuram Godse.

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"The committee noted that when schools reopened after COVID-19, there was an increased burden on students and to reduce that, these changes were recommended on the basis that even if this content was dropped, there would be no learning loss to students", Dinesh Prasad Saklani said.

(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Local News; Religion
KEYWORDS: hindu; india; mahatmagandhi
Current PM Modi's party is a successor to RSS.
1 posted on 04/05/2023 3:32:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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“Gandhi’s pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity angered some Hindu extremists...”

Gandhi in reality pursued Secular/socialist-Muslim unity(via appeasement) that sought to disenfranchise Hindu majority - that so-called mutual-appeasement pursuit failed so spectacularly that ended up n partition and genocide of Hindus while secular socialists and Islamists divided up spoils of post-colonial India. His assassination was culmination of the betrayal and genocide.


2 posted on 04/05/2023 8:01:49 PM PDT by kp2hot
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To: nickcarraway

The obvious elephant in the room is that Ghandi obviously enraged at least one Hindu — Nathuram Godse — so much that he was willing to give his life so that India would be rid of him.


3 posted on 04/06/2023 1:47:06 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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...Gandhi was all TALK of HINDU-MUSLIM unity, just TALK. In reality, GANDHI was a die hard supporter of THEOCRATIC HINDU STATE


4 posted on 08/22/2023 6:23:00 AM PDT by nick0786bazpur (2024: TRUMP or Nothing )
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To: Paal Gulli

Nathuram Godse - HE was not an enraged HINDU. Godse was a HUMANIST, Godse opposed partition. GODSE blamed GANDHI for the partition and genocide of 1947. REASON GODSE killed GANDHI is to prevent further bloodshed.

You must read Godse’s statement in court: “...may it please your honor”

You will be shocked


5 posted on 08/22/2023 6:25:04 AM PDT by nick0786bazpur (2024: TRUMP or Nothing )
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