After its new Class 8 history textbook sparked discussion over how the Mughal era is portrayed, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has issued a clarification. It said ...

The book, Exploring Society: India and Beyond--Grade 8, Part 1, introduces detailed chapters on the Sikh and Maratha empires, which were previously limited to a few pages or passing references From ...

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Director Professor Dinesh Prasad Saklani defended the content of the Class 8 Social Science textbook on Thursday, asserting that the ...

Influential women icons Raziyya Sultan, who once ruled the Delhi Sultanate, and Nur Jehan from the Mughal era, have been omitted from the new Class 8 National Council of Educational Research and ...

This Grade 8 textbook has so little Black Canadian history it could not easily shoulder a whole unit on the subject if it had to. The Ontario Black History Society wanted to illustrate how little time ...