Hyderabad, May 1 -- The Students Islamic Organisation of India(SIO) have strongly condemned the National Council of Educational Research and Training's (NCERT) decision to completely drop references to Mughals and the Delhi Sultanate from the newly revised Class 7 textbooks.

In a statement released on April 29, the student groupstated that the removal of important moments that were critical in shaping India's history, culture, and political demographics is an "unprecedented assault on historical truth."

"This is not academic revision; this is saffronisation, a deliberate attempt to communalise education, distort history, and mould young minds to serve the ideological interests of the ruling right-wing," the statement read.

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