{"id":192698,"date":"2022-06-27T20:36:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T15:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=192698"},"modified":"2022-06-27T20:36:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T15:06:14","slug":"whatll-help-us-come-to-terms-with-indias-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/whatll-help-us-come-to-terms-with-indias-past\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019ll help us come to terms with India\u2019s past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Many state boards and NCERT are making changes to the social science textbooks, specifically history books. For example; NCERT) has proposed sweeping changes to social science textbooks for Classes VI to IX.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ihc-changes-mooted-in-ncert-textbooks-biased\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Objections to rewriting of the history textbooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the issues with making changes to the social sciences?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History is not about good guys or bad, or a quest for a singular story of heroism. It is an objective assessment of complex and often paradoxical facts to know what\u2019s likely to have happened and what lessons can be learned from it.<\/p>\n<p>Future generations of India should be trained\u00a0to use history and social sciences as tools of critical thinking.<\/p>\n<p>History students must be able to understand everything clearly, from ruthless invaders or a syncretic past of harmony. They must learn everything without shutting their minds to uncomfortable facts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is created based on the article <strong>\u201cWhat\u2019ll help us come to terms with India\u2019s past\u201d<\/strong> published in <strong>Live Mint<\/strong> on <strong>27<sup>th<\/sup> June 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Many state boards and NCERT are making changes to the social science textbooks, specifically history books. For example; NCERT) has proposed sweeping changes to social science textbooks for Classes VI to IX. Read More &#8211; Objections to rewriting of the history textbooks What are the issues with making changes to the social sciences? History&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/whatll-help-us-come-to-terms-with-indias-past\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What\u2019ll help us come to terms with India\u2019s past<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10501],"class_list":["post-192698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704893883},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}