This is just ridiculous .. has to be protested... 9th and 10th grades are the equivalent of the first two years in secondary school in the UK.
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-india-protest-move-drop-darwinian-evolution-textbooksScientists in India are protesting a decision to remove discussion of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution from textbooks used by millions of students in ninth and 10th grades. More than 4000 researchers and others have so far signed an open letter asking officials to restore the material.
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NCERT’s move comes amid what some see as the growing influence of pseudoscience in India. Researchers and politicians linked to conservative Hindu organizations have voiced doubts about evolution and promoted unsupported claims that ancient Indians built spacecraft and conducted stem cell research.
