{"id":54121,"date":"2023-04-06T18:54:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T09:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/06\/indian-government-accused-of-rewriting-history-after-edits-to-schoolbooks"},"modified":"2023-04-06T18:54:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T09:54:38","slug":"indian-government-accused-of-rewriting-history-after-edits-to-schoolbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54121","title":{"rendered":"Indian government accused of rewriting history after edits to schoolbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>References to Muslim rulers, deadly riots connected to PM and Gandhi\u2019s dislike of Hindu nationalism removed<\/p>\n<p>The Indian government has been accused of rewriting history to fit its Hindu nationalist agenda after school textbooks were edited to remove references to Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s opposition to Hindu nationalism, as well as mention of a controversial religious riot in which the prime minister, Narendra Modi, was implicated.<\/p>\n<p>Textbooks were also revised to remove chapters on the history of the Mughals, the Muslim rulers who controlled much of India between the 16th and 19th centuries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/06\/indian-government-accused-of-rewriting-history-after-edits-to-schoolbooks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>References to Muslim rulers, deadly riots connected to PM and Gandhi\u2019s dislike of Hindu nationalism removedThe Indian government has been accused of rewriting history to fit its Hindu nationalist agenda after school textbooks were edited to remove refe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[516,614,62,433,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-history","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54122,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54121\/revisions\/54122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}