New NCERT textbook does not mention Babri Masjid by name, calls it ‘three-dome structure’ instead
The textbook said that the ‘structure had visible displays of Hindu symbols and relics in its interior as well as its exterior portions’.
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The National Council for Educational Research and Training’s new Class 12 textbook for political science does not mention the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya by name, The Indian Express reported on Sunday.
The textbook instead refers to it as a “three-dome structure [that] was built at the site of Shri Ram’s birthplace” by Mughal emperor Babur’s general Mir Baqi in the 16th century. The textbook said that the “structure had visible displays of Hindu symbols and relics in its interior as well as its exterior portions”.
The old textbook referred to the Babri Masjid as a 16th-century mosque built by Mir Baqi.
The Babri Masjid was demolished by Hindutva extremists in December 1992 because they believed that it stood on the spot where the Hindu deity Ram was born. The incident had triggered communal riots across the country.
The Ram temple in Ayodhya is now being built at the site of the demolished mosque. The temple was inaugurated in a ceremony led by Prime Minister Modi on January 22.
In the new NCERT textbook, the section on Ayodhya has been reduced from four to two pages, according to The Indian Express.
The old textbook had referred to mobilisation “on both sides” after the locks of the Babri Masjid were opened in February 1986 pursuant to the Faizabad district court’s order. It...
