Dina Nath Batra seeks removal of Urdu, Arabic words from text books

The Nyas had earlier sought the removal of A K Ramanujan’s essay Three Hundred Ramayanas

Dina Nath Batra wants Urdu and Arabic words removed from school text books. Batra the head of Nyas has made recommendations to the NCERT. In the recommendations he has said that various things ought to be removed from the text books.

He wants English, Urdu and Arabic words, a poem by Pash and a couplet by Mirza Ghalib, the thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore, extracts from painter M F Husain's autobiography; references to the Mughal emperors as benevolent removed from the school text books.

The Nyas had earlier sought the removal of A K Ramanujan's essay Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation, from the syllabus of Delhi University's undergraduate syllabus. Batra had also gone to court demanding the withdrawal of Wendy Doniger's The Hindus.

Three Hundred Ramayanas was removed from DU's reading list, and Doniger's book was temporarily unavailable.

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