RECENTLY, A section among the Sikhs has been led to believe that the account in the NCERT's textbook, MedievalIndia, meant for class XI has cast serious aspersions on the patriotism of Guru Tegh Bahadur and haspresented facts in a distorted manner. Fuel has been added to the fire by the press statement (September 29)of the NCERT Director, Dr. J. S. Rajput, who not only talks of some "adverse and derogatory'' remarks in thebook about Guru Tegh Bahadur, but goes on to say "this is what was being passed off as history by some self-styled secularists''. He even accuses such historians of working hand-in- glove with destablising forces. Ifsome historians, or for that matter, any individual acts in collusion with destablising forces, the Union HomeMinister has all the power and authority to act against them. It is hardly upto the NCERT Director to makesuch allegations, thereby creating unnecessary tension, and importing politics into what was an historicaldebate.