And finally, the class 11 sociology book, Understanding Society. As of 2022, page 45 of this book talked about segregation in Indian cities and included a recent example, the 2002 Gujarat riots. The page read,
This paragraph has been also deleted from the 2023 version of the book without any substitute, and with that, the only remaining reference to the 2002 Gujarat riots in NCERT textbooks has been done away with.
Given the latest crackdown by NCERT, and judging past trends, one can only hope that more lessons in school textbooks are not omitted, edited, or re-written.