New Delhi, June 16 -- The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Monday decided to replace the altered depiction of the famous Mohenjo-daro "Dancing Girl" sculpture in its Class 9 Arts textbook with the original image after facing backlash over the figurine being shown with added clothing.

Historian Michel Danino, who headed the textbook development committee for NCERT's new Class 6 Social Science books, revealed his first reaction was of "disbelief", calling it "not age-appropriate".

"This refers to our Grade 6 Social Science textbook. The reason I was given was that the image of the Dancing Girl was not 'age-appropriate', Danino told PTI.

"Our team disagreed; we even checked with teachers of Class 6 and they...