Bengaluru: A high-level meeting of historians, academicians and Madikeri BJP MLA M.P. Appachu Ranjan to decide on scrapping content related to Tipu Sultan from textbooks ended in a noisy altercation between Appachu Ranjan and historians. A three-hour marathon meeting at the Karnataka Text Book Society (KTBS) yesterday yielded no result with historians terming the BJP Legislator’s arguments as baseless.
The Committee, comprising officials and experts, has been asked to submit a report within a fortnight, but experts have sought a month. The meeting was convened after Appachu Ranjan wrote to the State Government demanding that the lessons on Tipu be removed, alleging that the ruler was a “fanatic.” At the meeting, Rajan made a presentation and urged the officials of the Karnataka Textbook Society and subject experts to remove the lessons.
