In Post- independent India the first important attempt to communalise education was taken by the centralgovernment in 1977 when Ancient India for Class XI prescribed and published by the NCERT was withdrawnform circulation at the behest of the Education Ministry. The book was restored in 1980 when the Congress cameto power. But the present government has decided to remove not only this book but also the other historytextbooks written by competent and conscientious scholars committed to secular values. Neither the books wereacademically examined nor the authors asked to answer the objections raised against their writings. A fewobjections were published in the newspapers. It was stated that the historicity of the gods couldn't bequestioned on the ground of archaeological evidence. In my view people should freely worship Ram and the othergods. But for this it is not necessary to deny the absence of even modest habitation in Ayodhya until thefifth century BC. Again, the NCERT authorities deny beef eating in ancient India. But the greatestDharmashastra scholar P V Kane supports it on the basis of literary sources, and the greatest Indianarchaeologist H.D. Sankalia supports it on the basis of excavations.