CBSE has issued the directive to omit a sub-topic, \u201cCaste Conflict and Dress Change,\u201d contained in the chapter \u201cClothing: A Social History\u201d from the social science syllabus of grade 9. The directive comes in accordance with a Madras High Court ruling which directed CBSE to consider and pass order to remove the objectionable content about the Nadar community.<\/p>\n
The section documents the injustice meted out to the Shanar community\u2014also referred to as the Nadar community\u2014in the name of caste norms, and the consequent struggle of the Shanar women to reclaim their rights. The content had earlier come under scrutiny of several political leaders including the then chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalitha, who had pointed out the historical in-authenticity in the textbooks regarding the origin and economic status of the Shanar community. She had sought the intervention of the then prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to remove the objectionable and derogatory content and in a letter had listed the errors. She had pointed out that contrary to what the textbooks say about Nadar community being migrants, they were the original inhabitants of Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu. Also they had served as accountants and administrators for the Chera and Pandya kings and were not a \u201csubordinate caste.\u201d<\/p>\n
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What the section \u201cCaste Conflict and Dress Change\u201d Contains:<\/b><\/p>\n CBSE\u2019s ruling has invited strong criticism which claims it as government\u2019s attempts at sanitising and in the process producing a distorted view of history. Santosh R, an assistant professor at IIT Madras, in an interview with The Ladies Finger, expressed the view that this is another incidence of government yielding to the pressure tactics of organised caste and religious groups in the context of framing of syllabus. He further added that denying students the opportunity to study objective history is a grave injustice to them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CBSE has issued the directive to omit a sub-topic, \u201cCaste Conflict and Dress Change,\u201d contained in the chapter \u201cClothing: A Social History\u201d from the social science syllabus of grade 9. The directive comes in accordance with a Madras High Court ruling which directed CBSE to consider and pass order to remove the objectionable content about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3975],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4261],"yoast_head":"\n\n