Hyderabad, July 16 -- The newly released Class 8 history textbooks of NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training), Mughal rulers Babur, Akbar, and Aurangzeb are described as "brutal mass murderers" and "destroyers of temples."

The textbooks are part of the revised curriculum under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023.

Exploring Society: India and Beyond (Part 1) has chapters covering Indian history from the 13th to the 17th centuries titledReshaping India's Political Map. It details the rise and fall of the Delhi Sultanate and resistance to it, the Vijayanagara Empire, the Mughals and the resistance to them, and the rise of Sikhism, the Indian Express repo...