Overview

• NCERT published two supplementary modules for Classes 6–8 and 9–12 presenting Partition as avoidable and attributing responsibility to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Congress leadership and Lord Mountbatten.
• The lessons document mass killings, the displacement of nearly 1.5 crore people and widespread sexual violence, and link Partition to long-term security challenges such as the Kashmir conflict.
• Congress leaders have condemned the interpretive framing as a one-sided distortion and demanded that the modules be removed or burned.
• BJP spokespeople have welcomed the materials as a corrective to previous curricula and even drawn analogies between Rahul Gandhi’s politics and Jinnah’s legacy.
• The Indian Council of Historical Research has affirmed that it found no factual errors in the modules, while NCERT has not yet issued a detailed public response beyond releasing the materials.