No Nehru in Mumbai University Textbook; Tilak, Gandhi Anti-Secular

Mumbai University's Institute of Distance and Open learning textbooks has courted controversy by omitting India’s first prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru's name from the political science textbook.

While Nehru no longer features in the book, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi have been called anti-secular in the same textbook. The book has been compiled by the university course coordinator and the head of the Civics and Politics department.

Following an uproar the university constituted an inquiry committee to review the book.

A few days ago, a controversy had erupted after it was revealed that Class 8 textbooks in Rajasthan had excluded any mention of Nehru from the history of independent India.

The opposition Congress, taking pot shots at BJP, had then dubbed it as 'saffronization of education'.