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India's great textbook rewriting project
Season 2, Ep. 1
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What's behind the recent revision of textbooks in India? What's been left out and what's been brought in? Have textbooks always been a battleground of political ideologies? What's the history of textbook writing in India? Listen to this episode of Threadbare, Fountain Ink's podcast show, where associate editor Suresh P Thomas, speaks to Dr. Manish Jain of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi, to know the answers to these questions and more.
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