{"id":1026,"date":"2025-07-18T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:05:37","slug":"ncert-revises-class-8-social-science-book-suggested-to-add-bhagwad-gita-in-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/07\/18\/ncert-revises-class-8-social-science-book-suggested-to-add-bhagwad-gita-in-syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"NCERT Revises Class 8 Social Science Book, suggested to add Bhagwad Gita in Syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"9fece8afa224fd09e54b043d0febfb58\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- NR ATF -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8898941184964366\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4839033563\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The new textbook has chapters on the Ganga River and <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/04\/29\/free-vs-paid-ai-tools-whats-your-pick\/\">AI (Artificial Intelligence),<\/a> India&#8217;s Gaganyaan program, and a controversial portrayal of the Sultanate and Mughal periods.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a major reform by the education ministry, the class 8 social science book is the first in the new NCERT book range to introduce students to the historic period of Delhi Sultanate and Mughal era. The National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) has revised the Class 8 social science textbook, pointing out many instances of \u2018<span style=\"color: #666699\"><strong><em>religious intolerance<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u2019 during this history phase, which mark the onset of a wave in India\u2019s timeline.<\/p>\n<p>The revamped social science textbook will introduce the students to the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal periods and will describe Babur as a \u2018brutal and ruthless conqueror\u2019, \u2018slaughtering entire population of cities\u201d, Akbar\u2019s reign as a \u2018<span style=\"color: #666699\"><strong><em>blend of brutality and tolerance<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u2019 and Aurangzeb, as someone who destroyed \u2018innumerable temples and gurudwaras\u2019. The NCERT opined it has also included a disclaimer with the revisions, which states that no individual from today should be held responsible for events of the past, and the note has been listed as a sub-section, titled \u2018Note on Some Darker Periods in History\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-891 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogdost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-18-at-3.14.34-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"NCERT, Mughal, Sultanate, Education, Syllabus\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;text-decoration: underline\">NCERT Book<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>NCERT released Part 1 of the Social Science book for Class 8 across <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/07\/18\/more-than-20-schools-in-delhi-receive-bomb-threat-search-operations-begin\/\">schools<\/a>, \u2018<em>Exploring Society: Indian and Beyond<\/em>\u2019. The book is for use in the ongoing academic session.\u00a0The given book is the first in the new NCERT books to introduce students to the Delhi Sultanate and the\u00a0Mughal\u00a0period. Although the period between the 13th &#8211; 18th century was originally introduced to students\u00a0in Class 7 in the earlier years until now, the NCERT has stated that the period of Indian history that will cover the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughals, and the Marathas will now only be dealt with in Class 8 in the new syllabus. The book\u2019s chapters will include the rise and fall of the Delhi Sultanate and resistance to it, the Vijayanagar Empire, the Mughals and resistance to them, and the rise of the Sikhs.<\/p>\n<p>These lessons will describe the Sultanate period as one underlined by political instability and military campaigns that saw villages and cities being destroyed, plundered and temples crushed to ruins. These instances are not mentioned in the old Class 7 NCERT book that introduced students to the same period of history.<\/p>\n<p>The historical account will aim to be balanced and entirely evidence-based, as the emphasis is on imparting knowledge with an honest approach that can draw from its important lessons for a better future. NCERT has been publishing new school textbooks in accordance with the <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><em>National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023<\/em><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Uttarakhand\u2019s education government has also directed the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to incorporate the Bhagavad Gita and the Ramayana in the syllabus of <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/07\/17\/nitish-kumar-announces-free-electricity-for-bihar-plans-teacher-recruitment-drive-ahead-of-the-polls\/\">17,000 government schools in the state<\/a>, to promote the inculcation of traditional values and familiarize students with India\u2019s glorious history.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new textbook has chapters on the Ganga River and AI (Artificial Intelligence), India&#8217;s Gaganyaan program, and a controversial portrayal of the Sultanate and Mughal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[394,392,391,393,395],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-education","tag-mughal","tag-ncert","tag-sultanate","tag-syllabus","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}