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RSS agenda Being Implemented by Distorting Historical Facts

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A close-up of a person with glasses AI-generated content may be incorrect.The Modi government’s latest effort to blame the Congress for partition by stealing facts and hiding its mentor RSS’s role in the subcontinent’s biggest human tragedy in 1947 has come into the public domain when NCERT (National Council of Education, Research and Training) released a special module to mark "Partition Horrors Remembrance Day".

 

The module twists historical facts and holds Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Congress and then Viceroy Lord Mountbatten responsible for India's Partition without even a mention of the role played by the Hindu Mahasabha and the Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh which was hailed as the biggest NGO by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his longest ever address to the nation on country’s 79th Independence Day.  

 

The module, a deliberate attempt by the Modi government to change history in favour of the Hindutva forces, says that post-Partition, Kashmir emerged as a new problem that had never existed in India before and created a challenge for the country's foreign policy. It also says that some countries keep giving aid to Pakistan and exert pressure on India in the name of the Kashmir issue.

 

"India's Partition happened due to wrong ideas. The party of Indian Muslims, the Muslim League, held a conference in Lahore in 1940. Its leader, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, said that Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs, and literatures," the module said.

 

The Modi government and NCERT for allegedly distorting historical facts in new modules marking “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day.” The modules blame the Congress, Jinnah, and Lord Mountbatten for India’s 1947 Partition, while omitting the role of the RSS and Hindu Mahasabha. By emphasizing Jinnah’s “political Islam” and Congress’s decisions, the text frames Partition as avoidable and driven by “wrong ideas,” while glossing over the involvement of Hindu nationalist forces.
Wednesday Wisdom
By Satish Misra
The modules, intended for classes 6–12 as supplementary resources, open with Prime Minister Modi’s 2021 message on Partition, signaling an ideological agenda. Congress leaders, including Pawan Khera, have challenged the modules for ignoring key historical events from 1938 onwards that implicate the Hindu Mahasabha and its alliance with the Muslim League. Misra argues that this selective narrative aims to indoctrinate young minds, promoting a Hindu-centric historical interpretation akin to fascist propaganda.

 

 

In a section titled "culprits of Partition", the NCERT module said, "Ultimately, on August 15, 1947, India was divided. But this was not the doing of any one person. There were three elements responsible for the Partition of India: Jinnah, who demanded it; second, the Congress, which accepted it; and third, Mountbatten, who implemented it. But Mountbatten proved to be guilty of a major blunder.

 

He preponed the date for the transfer of power from June 1948 to August 1947. He persuaded everyone to agree to this. Because of this, complete preparations could not be made before the Partition. The demarcation of the Partition boundaries was also done hastily. For that, Sir Cyril Radcliffe was given only five weeks,” the module reportedly said.

 

Preponed is not an English word per se, and is used only in Indian English.

 

“In Punjab, even two days after 15 August 1947, millions of people did not know whether they were in India or in Pakistan. Such haste was a great act of carelessness," it said.

 

"Later, even Jinnah admitted that he had not expected Partition to happen. He told his aide, 'I never thought it would happen. I never expected to see Pakistan in my lifetime'," it said.

 

The module quotes Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as saying that the situation in India had become explosive. "India had become a battlefield, and it was better to partition the country than to have a civil war."

 

It cites Mahatma Gandhi's stance, noting that he opposed Partition but would not resist the Congress's decision through violence. The text states: “He said that he could not be a party to the Partition, but he would not stop Congress from accepting it with violence."

 

NCERT has published two separate modules -- one for Classes 6 to 8 (middle stage) and another for Classes 9 to 12 (secondary stage). These are supplementary resources in English and Hindi, not part of regular textbooks, and are meant to be used through projects, posters, discussions and debates.

 

Both modules open with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2021 message announcing the observance of Partition Horrors Remembrance Day.

 

Quoting the prime minister's post on X (formerly Twitter), the book mentions, "Partition's pains can never be forgotten. Millions of our sisters and brothers were displaced, and many lost their lives due to mindless hate and violence. In memory of the struggles and sacrifices of our people, 14th August will be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day."

 

The module for middle-stage classes asserts that Partition "was not inevitable" and resulted from "wrong ideas." Patel had called it "bitter medicine," while Nehru described it as "bad" but "unavoidable".

 

The secondary-stage module traces Partition to Muslim leaders' belief in a separate identity rooted in "political Islam," which, it claims, "rejects any permanent equality with non-Muslims." It states that this ideology drove the Pakistan movement, with Jinnah as its "able lawyer-leader."

 

The NCERT is acting on the direction of the Modi government which is losing no time to put the RSS agenda in action. Idea behind the NCERT modules is to impregnate young minds so twisted facts and falsified narrative of the history of Mahatma Gandhi led freedom struggle comes to be accepted.          

 

The NCERT effort has been challenged by the Congress as Congress leader Pawan Khera challenged the Module’s basic thesis by asking “Is 1938 mentioned or not [in the NCERT module]?

 

“In the history of Partition, 1938 is a very significant date,” Khera said. “Why? In Gujarat, on the banks of the Sabarmati, the national conference of the Hindu Mahasabha was held. There it was clearly declared that Hindus and Muslims cannot live in one country.

 

“Let us move forward to 1940. Is it there in the module,” he asked. On again getting an answer in the negative, he said: “In 1940, taking the jugalbandi forward, in the Muslim League’s Lahore session, Jinnah had mentioned the same. It was floated in 1938 by the Hindu Mahasabha, Jinnah repeated it in 1940. Now let us come to 1942. I can assure you this date will also not be mentioned [in the module]. Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League alliance came to power. When the Quit India call was given, Congress leaders had resigned from all Provincial Assemblies to hit the streets against the British.

 

“At that time,” he said, “Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League made alliance regimes in provinces including NWFP, Bengal, Sindh. In the Sindh Assembly, the Partition proposal was tabled by Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League. Is it written in the NCERT module?

 

“Set fire to the book if all this is not mentioned in it,” he added. “This is the reality. Partition happened due to the jugalbandi of Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League. If there is a villain in this history, then it is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Generations will not forgive them.”

 

The Modi government’s sinister design to ignore facts to create a Hindu Rashtra can only be compared to fascist governments of Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy. It is a tragedy which has struck our people. ( Dr Satish Misra is a senior journalist and seasoned political analyst.)

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