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HOW PAST GOVERNMENTS REVISED HISTORY

1960-1970

↘ Education minister under three PMs including in ’s last term, M.C. Chagla, initiates the writing of new textbooks to give Indian history a ‘secular’, ‘unbiased’ and ‘anti-colonial’ view. He set up a committee whichHasan pushed writers who left a Marxist imprint on history texts.

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