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In response to mounting criticism and strong public reaction, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Monday issued a clarification concerning the exclusion of Odisha's historic Paika Rebellion from the newly introduced Social Studies (SST) textbook for Class 8.
NCERT acknowledged the omission and clarified that the Paika Rebellion or 'Paika Bidroha,' a significant regional resistance movement in Odisha, will be featured in the forthcoming Second Volume of the textbook 'Exploring Society: India and Beyond', which is currently in its final stages of development. Expectedly, the textbook is to be publi...