Himanta Biswa Sarma, the chief minister of Assam, praised the National Council of Educational Research and Training's (NCERT) reported modifications to school history textbooks on Saturday, which removed the adjective "great" from the names of Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore, and Akbar, the Mughal emperor.
Sarma remarked "very well done" in an interview with news agency ANI in Bongaigaon, Assam, although he wasn't sure if the adjustments had been implemented.
"Tipu-Ipu ko maro ekdum," he continued fiercely. Udhar hi bhej do, Jahan bhejna hai. "Samundar mein phek do" means "beat up that Tipu." Take him wherever you'd want. Throw him into the ocean.
"I'm not sure if they've done this. Sarma was cited by ANI as stating, "If they have done this, then many thanks to the NCERT from my side."
Sarma's comments were made one day after Sunil Ambekar, the leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), asserted on Friday that the NCERT had made certain adjustments to history textbooks and that the names of Mughal emperor Akbar and Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan will no longer be referred to as "the great."
"I could see that a lot of positive improvements have been made throughout history, and more could be done going forward. However, "Akbar the Great" and "Tipu Sultan the Great" are no longer included in history textbooks.
At the Orange City Literature festival in Kanpur on Friday, Ambekar was quoted by news agency PTI as saying, "Many changes have been brought, but nobody has been removed from these books because the new generation should know their cruel deeds and should also know because we were victimized and from whom we should be free."
Congress MP Imran Masood, however, was unimpressed by NCERT's purported action and questioned its potential benefits. For seven hundred years, they were in charge of the nation. They were in power for more than a day or two.
You deleted their names, but what would the addition or deletion accomplish? The GDP was 27% while they were in power. Another name for India was the "golden bird." They arrived here and died here.
Despite being beheaded, the previous emperor rejected British slavery. He noticed the heads of his boys on a plate. Masood added that people who "knelt before the British" were now "enjoying themselves in the present government," but he would not accept slavery.
