Guwahati, Aug. 13 -- The Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Gaurav Gogoi, has written to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for urgent steps to correct "historical inaccuracies" relating to Assam in Class 8 NCERT textbooks.
"The inclusion of the Ahoms, who ruled Assam for over six centuries and defended it against multiple Mughal invasions, is welcome and long overdue. However, their representation contains errors and oversimplifications that risk distorting students' understanding of history," said Gogoi in his letter to Pradhan.
Gogoi pointed out that while the history textbooks of NCERT of Class 8 state that the Ahoms migrated from present-day Myanmar, the historical scholarship locates their origin in Mung Mao, a T...