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NCERT removes Maulana Azad from new class 11 political science

NCERT removes Maulana Azad from new class 11 political science

References to freedom fighter and India’s first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad have been removed from the new class 11 political science textbook by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). As part of its “syllabus rationalisation” exercise last year, the NCERT, citing “overlapping” and “irrelevant” as