‘PSEB history books under SAD-BJP rule also had defamatory content’

Ludhiana | Thursday | 10th May, 2018

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We don’t interfere in the PSEB matter.”However, SGPC education director Jatinder Singh Sidhu said, “A panel of SGPC Sikh History Board is looking into the content related to the gurus and Sikh history. They alleged that these books were still being taught in the schools.A few years back, PSEB approved ‘History of Punjab’ authored by Harish Chauhan and Chandra Shekhar. The ‘Gaudi Ki Var’ has been mentioned as biography of second and third Sikh master Guru Angad Dev and Guru Amardas respectively. It might not have come to our notice about the book approved during the SAD rule. I don’t know how many books were approved for history subject..