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Friday, May 1, 2026
TopicHistory books

Topic: history books

History teaching requires revision more than textbooks

The kinds of revisions we’re seeing remove the very skills that make historical thinking meaningful. The result is a citizen who either dismisses history entirely or defends it without support.

Vikram Sampath has a new history foundation. Gates must be opened, he says

The title of the new fellowship grant is itself an important signalling—named after historian Jadunath Sarkar, who was marginalised by mainstream academia post-Independence.

‘Educational censorship’: US non-profit flags Modi govt’s ‘alarming rewriting’ of school textbooks

New York-based PEN America criticises curriculum revision by NCERT for school textbooks that include changes to sections on Mahatma Gandhi’s death & trimming of Mughal history.

Battle over history just got a giant new classroom in India—YouTube

In the age of rebuilding Ram Temple at Ayodhya, history is now everybody’s business—not just of elite scholars like Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib.

Delhi was ‘Dhillikapuri’, Qutub Minar was Sun pillar — pro-Hindutva press on capital’s Hindu past

ThePrint’s round-up of how pro-Hindutva media covered and commented on news and topical issues over the past few days.

The Gujarat model: Why Amit Shah was always going to be Modi’s pick for home minister

No ministry is free from home's interference, which makes the secretive and fiercely loyal BJP chief Modi’s best man for all situations.

Amarinder faces his first big test by fire over ‘erasing’ Punjab history from textbooks

Opposition parties say the Congress govt has erased the state’s history from school education, threaten to launch state-wide protests; govt says Akalis doing cheap politics.

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India’s real estate will meet the reality of agentic AI

New Delhi: The outsourcing industry, India’s largest white-collar employer, is a juggernaut that has all but stopped moving. The dollar revenue at the top...

Adani’s giant copper plant hits technical setbacks in first year

The 500,000 tonne-per-year plant produced just 94,000 tonnes of refined copper from April 2025 to February this year.

Indian drone tech company ideaForge signs MoU with Japanese firm to develop next-gen AI powered drones

By pairing Indian drone engineering with Japanese semiconductor expertise, the two firms aim to develop more advanced autonomous systems tailored to both defence & commercial use.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.