New Delhi: India had a prime meridian of its own much ahead of the Greenwich meridian and it was called “madhya rekha”, which passed through the city of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, according to a new Class-6 NCERT textbook for social science. No mention of caste-based discrimination, tweaks in references to B R Ambedkar’s experience […]

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