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Academia margins to NCERT row: French-born scholar’s tryst with India’s past

Academia margins to NCERT row: French-born scholar’s tryst with India’s past

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“I enjoy (historical) controversies in a kind of perverse way, perhaps,” Michel Danino, 69, said during his lecture at Azim Premji University in October last year. Arguing that “historical controversies” are inherent part of the discipline, he said: “We should not shun controversies, we should desire them. We should make use of them to go […]

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NCERT panel head defends ‘broad survey’ approach in new social science textbooks

NCERT panel head defends ‘broad survey’ approach in new social science textbooks

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The new NCERT social science textbooks for classes 6 to 8 provide a “broad survey” of Indian civilisation from prehistoric times to Independence, and an “in-depth, detailed treatment of any period of India’s history is not only impossible, but undesirable,” according to Michel Danino, chairperson of the NCERT’s curricular area group for the new social […]

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