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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Sunday (December 28, 2025) warned that past arsenic a subject is facing a sustained governmental assault, with communal and obscurantist forces distorting curricula and undermining world institutions. He called connected historians to support evidence-based assistance to safeguard democracy.
Inaugurating the 84th league of the Indian History Congress, Mr. Vijayan said the rewriting of past implicit the past decennary had moved beyond world statement into organised governmental project. He alleged that institutions specified arsenic National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), University Grants Commission (UGC) and Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) were being reshaped ideologically, portion Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) textbooks were being systematically hallowed retired to suit a constrictive imaginativeness of the past.
The Chief Minister pointed retired that the dilution oregon removal of cardinal themes from schoolhouse syllabi, including the Mughal period, fashionable absorption movements against caste oppression, communalism and the trauma of Partition. He said the ideological extent of figures specified arsenic Bhagat Singh had been stripped away, portion the state conflict was progressively portrayed arsenic uncontested and led by a fewer icons.
Omission of cardinal leaders
Describing the omission of the Malabar Rebellion of 1921 arsenic peculiarly telling, Mr. Vijayan said the erasure of leaders specified Variyamkunnath Kunhahamed Haji and Ali Musaliar amounted to removing an full section of anti-imperialist conflict led by agrarian poor.
He criticised attempts to elevate figures with marginal roles successful the state question portion belittling Mahatma Gandhi, calling it a sheer distortion of history.
The marginalisation of Marxist historiography and scholars specified arsenic D.D. Kosambi, R.S. Sharma, Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib, helium said, reflected discomfort with past arsenic a captious subject grounded successful grounds and debate. Mr. Vijayan besides warned against the seizure of probe bodies done ideologically driven appointments and the promotion of pseudo-scientific claims, arguing that attacks connected technological temper and dissent would inevitable fortify authoritarianism.
Kerala’s history
Highlighting Kerala’s alternate humanities trajectory shaped by anti-caste struggles, societal betterment and people politics, helium said figures specified arsenic Ayyankali, Sree Narayana Guru and movements similar the Vaikom Satyagraha are being marginalised successful nationalist narratives, arsenic was the 1957 elected communist authorities and its reforms.
Defending history, the Chief Minister said, was a antiauthoritarian duty. “History volition not beryllium surrendered. Truth volition not beryllium replaced by mythology. Scholarship volition not bow to power,” helium said, assuring the State government’s afloat enactment to the Indian History Congress and its efforts to uphold a secular, inclusive and technological attack to the past.
