Congress Government Drops Chapter On RSS Founder, Brings Back Ambedkar, Nehru

The Karnataka Cabinet on Thursday announced the approval of revision of Kannada and Social Science textbooks of classes 6 to 10 in the state for this academic year by removing the chapters on RSS founder K B Hedgewar and Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar among others. The cabinet further consented to add chapters on social reformer and educator Savitribai Phule, Nehru's letters to Indira Gandhi and poetry on Ambedkar, and do away with the changes that were brought in by the previous BJP government.