Dal Khalsa, in a state­ment to the me­dia, has sought the set­ting up of a high level SGPC Com­mit­tee of renowned Sikh his­to­ri­ans and aca­d­e­mi­cians to re­view all books or parts thereof,which con­tain chap­ters in Sikh and Pun­jab his­tory.

It is com­mon knowl­edge that syl­labus books are au­thored by athe­ists and ag­nos­tics, who are to­tally in­sen­si­tive to mat­ters of re­li­gion, cul­ture and nu­ances of his­tory. There are oth­ers who are cur­rently in the mode of ul­tra na­tion­al­ism and there­fore highly prone to covert dis­tor­tions.

The cur­rent im­broglio in chap­ters of Class XII of Pun­jab School Ed­u­ca­tion Board is not a case in iso­la­tion. Even SGPC books have faced crit­i­cism. Apart from the need to change the writ­ers, there is need for a per­ma­nent Ed­i­to­r­ial Re­view Board so that mis­takes in syl­labus all across the coun­try and whether can be mon­i­tored put on the right path.

Tin­ker­ing with his­tory is a cul­tural crime and should be dealt with ac­cord­ingly, as­serted Dal Khalsa spokesman Kan­war Pal Singh.

Sikh Youth of Pun­jab pres­i­dent Paramjit Singh Mand stressed the need to pre­serve all orig­i­nal sources of Sikh his­tory, presently avail­able, not only in In­dia but also in Pak­istan and other coun­tries.

Am­rit­sar, 2 No­vem­ber 2018, WSN News Desk