The filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri who is quite active on social media criticized Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday after he claimed that after Babur, every Mughal king was apparently “the product of an Indian wife”. The Congress MP was responding to a tweet after the NCERT recently dropped certain chapters on the Mughal Empire from its Class 12 history textbooks. The move has significantly attracted severe criticism from several factions of the political arena.
This is not the first time that something like this happened. NCERT has previously dropped certain portions on Mahatma Gandhi and how his pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity from its Class 12 history textbook. It has apparently “provoked Hindu extremists” and a ban on the RSS.
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The portions relating to the Gujarat riots have also been dropped from its Class 11 sociology textbook. It is not unknown NCERT has also removed the reference to the 2022 communal violence in two Class 12 textbooks.
BJP and RSS have been slammed over the issue by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, saying no matter how much they try, they cannot erase history.
A note by NCERT on its website reads,
“In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was felt imperative to reduce content load on students. The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 also emphasises reducing the content load and providing opportunities for experiential learning with creative mindset. In this background, the NCERT had undertaken the exercise to rationalise the textbooks across all classes and all subjects”
It also adds,
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“The present edition is a reformatted version after carrying out the changes. The present textbooks are rationalised textbooks. These were rationalised for the session 2022-23 and will continue in 2023-24”
Responding to the removal of the Mughal chapters from the class 12 NCERT history book, Shashi Tharoor posted a tweet
The tweet read,
Be warned!!
Be warned!! pic.twitter.com/e95e98TU5a
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 6, 2023
His tweet got a lot of reactions from netizens, among them, a tweet by Shakshi Singh got Shashi Tharoor’s attention, the Twitter user wrote.
Shashi you need to understand that these Mughals invaders are not Indians
That’s why these Mughal invaders will not be read in India but if any liberals wants to read about Mughal invaders then he can take Visa of peaceful country Pakistan
Shashi you need to understand that these Mughals invaders are not Indians
That’s why these Mughal invaders will not be read in India but if any liberals wants to read about Mughal invaders then he can take Visa of peaceful country Pakistan pic.twitter.com/Lbmzv0UlWc
— Sakshi Singh (@ThePlaycardGirl) April 6, 2023
To this Shashi replied,
. You are simply wrong. After Babur every Mughal King was the product of an Indian wife. They knew no other homeland, lived, loved, died & were buried here, spent their resources here, & left their legacies to us Indians. I certainly wouldn’t cede any of them to Pakistan.
. You are simply wrong. After Babur every Mughal King was the product of an Indian wife. They knew no other homeland, lived, loved, died & were buried here, spent their resources here, & left their legacies to us Indians. I certainly wouldn’t cede any of them to Pakistan.
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 6, 2023
Vivek Agnihotri jibes at Shashi Tharoor says I expected little sense
Agnihotri, being active on social media and can be often found commenting on political issues couldn’t help but fact-check Tharoor’s claims.
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The ‘Kashmir Files’ director also added on Twitter,
Dear Shashi, Mughals stayed back because Bharat was rich. They didn’t want to go back to their own poor tribes. Your logic is like some Mr. G invades your house, captures it, kills your family, makes your wife/daughter war trophy, have children with her, builds a big rose garden outside, another floor on terrace with the money MR. G looted from you and Hundreds of years later your grandchildren say since MR G lived here and built on your grave hence he loved you and family else MR. G would have gone back. Wow! What logic. I expected little more sense from the last intellectual left in Congress.
Dear Shashi, Mughals stayed back because Bharat was rich. They didn’t want to go back to their own poor tribes. Your logic is like some Mr. G invades your house, captures it, kills your family, makes your wife/daughter war trophy, have children with her, builds a big rose garden… https://t.co/syZm9HBpPm
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) April 7, 2023
Agnihotri also added,
“Oh… I forgot to remind you @ShashiTharoor that Hitler also stayed back in countries which he invaded and looted. Thank God you were not born in Poland, else you would have been behind bars for being in love with the invaders”
Oh… I forgot to remind you @ShashiTharoor that Hitler also stayed back in countries which he invaded and looted. Thank God you were not born in Poland, else you would have been behind bars for being in love with the invaders. https://t.co/PW9FHgzp3P
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) April 7, 2023
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Well, the clash of tweets between the Congress MP and the filmmaker cannot be overlooked.
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