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Educating to confuse and Disrupt
by Makkhan Lal with Rajendra Dixit
 

Educating to Confuse And Disrupt

Price: Rs. 500 (US $ 25)
Pages: 416, ISBN 81-89072-10-2

CONTENTS
 

Foreword

by S.C. Bhattacharya
National Fellow
IIAS, Shimla

   

Chapters  & Sub-Chapters

Page No.
1.
Introduction
1
i
History,Heritage and Education
ii
History, Education and Marxism
iii
Hegelian Roots of Marxism
iv
Notes and References
v
Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report
2.
Destruction of the Beautiful Tree
23
i
Indian Education System
ii
Financial Support to the Education and Educational Institutions
iii
British Education Policy
iv
Means Adopted by the British for the Destruction of the 'Beautiful Tree'
v
A School in Every Village
 
vi
Village Schools and 'Village Republics'
 
vii
Khalsa, Chakeran and Bazee Zemin
 
viii
Dispossession of Revenue assigned to the Educational Establishments
 
ix
Notes and References
3.
History of Indian History Writing
69
i
The Background
ii
History as a Discipline and the Question of Rewriting of History
iii
Problems in History Writing
iv
History and Historiography in the Indian Context
 
v
Sanskrit Literature and History
 
vi
Early Foreigners
 
vii
Christian Missionaries and Enlightenment
 
viii
Civil Servants, Missionaries and the Indologists
 
ix
Nationalist Approach to Indian History
 
x
Marxist Approach to Indian History
 
xi
The present Scenario
 
xii
Notes and References
4.
Recent Debate about the NCERT and the NCFSE-2000
116
i
National Policy on Education and NCFSE-2000
ii
Chavan Committee Report on 'Value Based Education'
 
iii
NCFSE-2000
 
iv
Vivekananda, Aurbindo, Gandhi and others on Education
 
v
Supreme Court Judgement
5.
The New NCERT Textbook and the Loss of Paradise
152
i
History Debate Through Media
ii
Spread of Falsehood through the Indian History Congress
iii
Review of Class VI Textbook for Social Science Book
iv
Review of Ancient India, Class XI Textbook for History
v
Conclusions
vi
Notes and References
vii
Sea-Boundary
6.
The NCERT History Textbooks Review Committee, Dotted Lines and the Colour Blindness
237
i
Appointment of the Three Members Committee
ii
Deliberate Lies by the Committee
 
iii
The Listing of Errors
 
iv
An Analysis of Experts' Comments on India and the World-Social Science Textbook for Class VI
 
i
Statements/Sentences in the Book Considered Irrelevant by the Experts
 
ii
Statements/Portions Considered Emotional/Provocative and Therefore to be Delete from the Book
 
iii
Suggestions for Better English
 
iv
No Comments on the Evidence or any Factual Mistakes
 
v
An Analysis of Experts' Comments on Medieval India: A textbook for Class XI
 
vi
Committee's Final Recommendations
 
vii
HRD Ministry's Ignores the Recommendations and Follow's Common Minimum Programme of NPA Government
 
viii
Cow Eating in Ancient India
 
ix
Slighting the Jain Religion
 
x
Picturing Sikh Gurus as Indulging in Plunder and Rapine
 
xi
Derogatory Remarks about Jats
 
xii
Turning a Blind Eye-I (History Textbooks Published by the West Bengal Government)
 
xii
Turning a Blind Eye-II (History Textbooks Published by the Delhi Government)
 
xiii
Notes and References
7.
Hit Where It Hurts the Most
294
i
Identification of the Ancient Saraswati
ii
Geographical Distribution of the Harappan Settlements
iii
Horse in the Harappan Civilization
 
iv
Age of the RigVeda
 
i
Max Mueller and other Sanskritists
 
ii
Rig Veda, Iron and the Vedic Literature
 
iii
RigVeda, Astronomy and the Vedic Chronology
 
iv
Rigveda, Mathematics and the Vedic Chronology
 
v
The Aryan Invasion Theory
 
i
Linguistic Evidence
 
ii
Rigveda and Racialism
 
vi
Aryans, Harappan Civilization and the Rigveda
 
i
Geography
 
ii
Material Culture and religious practices
 
vii
Varna System in the RigVeda
 
viii
Science and Technology in the Vedic Period
 
ix
Origin of Jainism and Buddhism
 
x
Buddhism and the Samkhya System
 
xi
Buddhism and Jati System
 
xii
'India not a Nation'
 
xiii
Notes and References