Akbar no longer be taught as 'great' in Rajasthan schools?
Akbar no longer be taught as 'great' in rajasthan schools?
rajasthan education minister madan Dilawar on sunday announced that Mughal emperor Akbar will no longer be taught as a great person in schools. He criticised Akbar, saying that he looted the country for years and also said that now in future no one will be allowed to praise the Mughal emperor as a 'great personality'. The minister said this during the 28th state-level "Bhamashah Samman Samaroh" at the Vivekananda Auditorium of Sukhadia university in Udaipur.
The education minister expressed grief that Maharana Pratap, who sacrificed everything for the honour and prestige of Mewar, was never given the status of greatness. He said that education is the highest responsibility and every penny given by bhama Shah for this purpose will be used properly. In january this year, madan Dilawar called Mughal emperor Akbar a "rapist" and called for removal of references to him as a "great man" from school textbooks. His comments were made in response to discussions of significant revision of school textbooks following a change in government.
'A lot of misleading information'
"We don't need to make any changes in the syllabus, but whatever portions have unethical statements or insult great men will be removed. A lot of misleading information has been given about our ancestors like Veer Savarkar and Shivaji, those statements will be corrected," he said at a press conference on january 30. 'Maharana Pratap's role suppressed by Akbar'
madan Dilawar further said, "Many textbooks state that Savarkar was not a patriot. While Akbar has been considered a great man, shivaji has been called a 'hill rat', and Maharana Pratap's role has been suppressed by Akbar's role. Such statements are not acceptable and will be reviewed." Meanwhile, the education minister on sunday praised the bhama Shah tradition of Rajasthan. He said that rajasthan is a land of sacrifice, penance, valour and bravery. He said that when Maharana Pratap had to live in the forests, bhama Shah donated his entire property. He concluded by calling rajasthan a land of great men and acts of bravery, and emphadata-sized the inspirational legacy of Maharana Pratap, bhama Shah, and tribal leader Govind Guru.