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Defence or Synthesis? NCERT's New Class 9 Text Rewrites What India's Medieval Centuries Were About

NCERT released the new Class 9 social science textbook on Tuesday, September 29, 2026. It replaces four older textbooks, including India and the Contemporary World, which carried the French Revolution, Socialism in Europe, the Russian Revolution and the Rise of Nazism. It reframes medieval Indian history around regional resistance and cultural resilience. Both The Hindu and Indian Express carried it on their front pages and…