![Asia Rising artwork](https://is3-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts123/v4/33/38/ef/3338ef9f-9a65-968a-b0ff-43d5c155e279/mza_2755840504671564974.jpg/100x100bb.jpg)
#210: The Politics of Indian History
Asia Rising
English - August 15, 2023 14:24 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsPolitics News asia china japan la trobe university indonesia korea north korea south korea india Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Event: School Sport for Development in India
Next Episode: #211: Sport-for-Development in India's Schools
In the past few years India's right-wing ruling BJP party has made efforts to change curriculum and censor textbooks in an attempt to deprioritise history that doesn't amplify their narrative - in particular centuries of India's Mughal history.
Host: Dr Ruth Gamble (Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, Archaeology and History, La Trobe University)
Guest: Divya Rama Gopalakrishnan (History, La Trobe University)
Recorded 7th July, 2023.