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Nehru missing from MU textbook, while Gandhi, Tilak labelled anti-secular
Updated On: 17 May, 2016 07:50 AM IST | | Varun Singh and Pallavi Smart
<p>Political History textbook has no mention of India’s first PM, Nehru, but plenty of info on Left leaders, blames Mahatma Gandhi for Partition; also says Lokmanya Tilak was anti-secular </p>

All eyes are on Rajasthan, where a school textbook was recently revised and wiped clean of any mention of the nation’s first prime minister, Jawarharlal Nehru. Even as the Rajasthan government faces the heat for such a glaring omission, closer home, Mumbai University continues to get away with the same blunder with hardly anyone noticing or raising objection.

mid-day has referred to the October 2015 reprint of the Mumbai University textbook, which labels many of India’s freedom fighters as anti-secular and upholds only the Left front as blameless

