New Delhi, June 26 -- The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has introduced a discussion on the Emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, while omitting the Preamble and references to 'secular' and 'secularism' from its Class 9 Social Science textbook, released on 25 June.

The Preamble references to 'secular' and 'secularism' featured prominently in the previous Class 9 textbook.

The revised textbook, released under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE) 2023, discusses the Constitution through its making, democratic institutions and fundamental rights, but does not reproduce the Preamble or explain its terminology, Hindustan T...