Skip to main content
Donate to the 95 years appeal
Indian communists condemn the Modi government's plans to rewrite the history textbooks
An auto rickshaw drives past a huge hoarding showing Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's alleged popularity among world leaders being the highest, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, April 6, 2023

THE Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) political committee has strongly condemned plans by Narendra Modi’s government to rewrite the country’s history textbooks.

Mr Modi wanted to write the Mughal empire out of the textbooks because its rulers were Muslims, the party said today.

The prime minister also intends to revise the textbooks to “whitewash the divisive and violent role of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh [RSS] organisation” in the assassination of independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, the CPI-M warned, with Gandhi’s killing by Nathuram Godse, a member of the Hindhu chauvinist RSS slated for removal from the syllabus published by the supposedly autonomous National Council of Educational Research and Training.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, listens to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer as they meet for bilateral talks at Chequers, the country house of the serving Prime Minister of the UK, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. Picture date: Thursday July 24, 2025
Features / 7 August 2025
7 August 2025

Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime

Kashmiri villagers are escorted by police as they walk after they are evacuated from their village following overnight shelling from Pakistan in Uri district, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, May 9, 2025
Editorial / 9 May 2025
9 May 2025
Features / 19 April 2025
19 April 2025
As a delegate to the party’s 24th congress, HARSEV BAINS connects historical threads from Harry Pollitt’s 1954 visit to today’s challenges of building left unity against corporate-backed Hindu nationalism
A Kashmiri Muslim man prays inside the shrine of Sheikh Abdu
World / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025