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Punjab Women Collective pays Tribute to women martyrs of farm struggle.Working PeoplesвЂ™ Charter congratulates the farmersвЂ™ movement for their historic victory!.Satire -Elections are such a pain ! #SundayReading.Hindutva ideologue Savarkar gained prominence while Nehru and Gandhi were relegated to periphery, and rival Congress was termed a вЂnurtured babyвЂ™ of the British, among other changes.Д«JP leaders have said that students were being taught вЂњdistortedвЂќ versions of history earlier, and it was only bringing those leaders to the fore who were deliberately ignored by вЂњCommunistвЂќ historians. Under the BJP government in the state, several schoolbooks have been rewritten to promote its parent RSSвЂ™s saffron ideology. Prof Gupta too had not written any book on the topic but said he has written some research papers.ДЄfter deliberations, the board felt вЂњthere is a need to know the latest researches on Maharana Pratap and the battle of HaldighatiвЂќ, and Dr Chandra Shekhar SharmaвЂ™s book was included in the syllabus. Lakhawat, however, wrote to the department that he has neither authored nor edited any book by that title. The MLA had suggested that a book вЂAtit se SakshatkarвЂ™ by Onkar Singh Lakhawat and another one by Prof KS Gupta on the Haldighati battle be included in the syllabus. The idea to teach AkbarвЂ™s вЂdefeatвЂ™ in the university was first mooted by a BJP MLA Mohan Lal Gupta, also a member of the universityвЂ™s syndicate, in a meeting of the syndicate in February this year.

The universityвЂ™s academic council subsequently approved the boardвЂ™s decisions, which means students shall be studying the revised syllabus from this year onwards. The board also decided to include a topic вЂDebate on the outcome of the Battle of HaldighatiвЂ™ in the topics to be covered under the paper. SharmaвЂ™s book, according to the minutes of the meeting, has a fresh interpretation of Maharana Pratap, and projects him as a great freedom fighter, besides projecting him as a victor in the battle of Haldighati. The history department of RU, in a meeting of its board of studies last month, decided to include Dr Chandra Shekhar SharmaвЂ™s Rashtra-Ratna Maharana Pratap in the list of recommended readings in the paper вЂRajasthan Through the AgesвЂ™ in the second semester of MA History. School education minister Vasudev Devnani had in March this year questioned AkbarвЂ™s victory asking why he attacked Mewar six times if he won the battle, and pronounced the Rajput king the victor.

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