Gandhi is not so great, but Hitler is. Welcome to high school education in Narendra Modis Gujarat, where authors of social studies textbooks published by the Gujarat State Board of School Textbooks have found faults with the freedom movement and glorified Fascism and Nazism. While a Class VIII student is taught negative aspects of Gandhis non-cooperation movement, the Class X social studies textbook has chapters on Hitler, the Supremo and Internal Achievements of Nazism. The Class X book presents a frighteningly uncritical picture of Fascism and Nazism. The strong national pride that both these phenomena generated, the efficiency in the bureaucracy and the administration and other achievements are detailed, but pogroms against Jews and atrocities against trade unionists, migrant labourers, and any section of people who did not fit into Mussolini or Hitlers definition of rightful citizen dont find any mention. They committed the gruesome and inhuman act of suffocating 60 lakh Jews in gas chambers is all the book, authored by a panel, mentions of the holocaust. *OLD NEWS, STILL VALID* timesofindia.indiatimes/india/In-Modis-Gujarat-Hitler-is-a-textbook-hero/articleshow/868469.cms
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 06:44:07 +0000
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