The Central Board of Secondary Education has removed a section on the 19th century Upper Cloth Revolt in South India from Class 9 textbooks after objections to “derogatory” references to women, The ...
The princely state of Travancore had it own version of Jim Crow laws that were oppressive to the lower castes in the 19th century, when slavery was also in vogue. “It was the feudal nature of society, ...