Claim: Parliament established the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT), employing several prominent historians and historiographers to create a common syllabus of events to be covered in Indian history, in 1961 to fulfill the government's goal that all Indian citizens receive a unified Indian history education.
Evidence: The disagreement centers around accusations of, on the one hand, the leftist bias of books, and on the other of suppressing cultural and heritage history of India and attempted saffronizing of Indian history.