What had been in the offing has finally come true. The Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals have officially been ousted from Class 7 NCERT textbooks. And with that, the fight against the Mughals is well and truly over. As for the roads of central Delhi, the process of renaming is underway and may reach completion in the near future.

Logically speaking, a fight requires an adversary, which in this particular instance was history. Armed with the power and reasoning of Hindutva, the central government decided it was time to put an end to a rule that turned the very course of Indian history, the details of which, marked as achievements of the Mughals, have long been dropped from the books. And so, with a decisive new education policy, it........

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