That the new NCERT Social Science textbook for Class 9 includes a section on the Emergency, in a chapter titled “Democracy”, is a good call. It replaces a textbook in which the Emergency was cursorily mentioned in a chapter on electoral politics. The NCERT move stands out as a departure from a range of its recent and not-so-recent ill-judged, politically inspired rewrites, insertions and deletions — most recently, its bizarre and prudish decision, rolled back after a report in this newspaper, to digitally cover the bare torso of the iconic Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro in the Class 9 Art textbook. The attempt to sheath the 4,500-year-old bronze figurine,........

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