Challenge to Democracy': In A First, Topic On Emergency Introduced In NCERT Class 9 Textbook

New Delhi: Over five decades after the Emergency was imposed in India, the NCERT has, for the first time, has introduced the topic in a Class 9 textbook, presenting it as "one of the major challenges" that occurred when the majority of fundamental rights were suspended. The reference appears in the newly developed Social Science textbook, Understanding Society: India and Beyond, where the Emergency has been included in a chapter examining the strengths and challenges...