The paint of forced ‘secularism’ that Leftist historians put on India’s school textbooks is peeling off at last. The whitewash factories of Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, Bipan Chandra, and others—which sanitised India’s history of the brutality of Islamic invaders and downplayed the glory of local heroes and rulers, denying generations of unsuspecting students access to truth from the past—are finally shutting down.

The newly released Class 8 history textbooks by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for this 2025-26 academic year portray Mughal rulers as “intellectuals" who also “plundered" India. Babur, Akbar, and Aurangzeb have been described as “brutal mass murderers" and “destroyers of temples".

The book Exploring Society: India and Beyond (Part 1) released in July has chapters covering Indian history from the 13th to the 17th centuries titled ‘Reshaping India’s Political Map in Theme B – Tapestry of the Past’. It covers the rise and fall of the Delhi Sultanate and resistance to it, the Vijayanagara Empire, the Mughals and how Indian rulers fought them, and the rise of Sikhism.

The book describes Delhi Sultanate as........

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