Censorship – Academia

A photograph of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has reportedly been replaced with that of RSS co-founder and freedom fighter Vinayak Savarkar in the Class 10 History and Political Science textbooks in Goa, claims Ahraz Mulla, chief of Goa’s National Student’s Union of India (NSUI).

According to Mulla, Nehru’s photo has been replaced with that of Savarkar in the chapter ‘Rise of Nationalism in India’. In the old book, Nehru’s photo was present on page 68, which has now been replaced with Savarkar’s photo on page 48. Mulla says that the caption accompanying the picture of Savarkar reads: ‘In 1904, one of the prominent revolutionaries, who had the experience of revolutionary activity in India, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (popularly known as Swatantraveer Savarkar) founded Abhinav Bharat to guide the revolutionaries’.