Aayush D Bappa

Since the 1950s, in India, there has been a revisionist study of historical narrative and social change that constitutes the dominant and the marginalised. The voices of the subaltern have been overshadowed in the narrative as the problems of dialogue fundamentally become a contention rather than exchange of ideas. Through their works in various fields such as literature, academia, drama, etc., many literary historians and writers have documented alternative narratives of history that often fall within the categories of fetishization and exotification. Works of many like Mahashweta Devi, Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak, Ranajit Guha, Dipesh Chakraborty have expressed their views on this matter. At the face of erasure and violence, there is a need for a fairer and healthier representation of communities and cultures that have been marginalized, alienated and silenced in order to sustain the dictates of the dominant culture. This paper, through a qualitative method of research, using primary data and citing secondary data, aims to acknowledge how the market forces, institutions, and certain idealogues are leaning against this attempt of communication. The culture and history of tribes, minority religions and all those who stand as the Other face the threat of erasure which, among other things will lead to no economic and political reformation. The paper aims to contextualize this situation with the implementation of the National Education Policy, 2020 and how this reduction and removal of history is a right-wing revisionist propaganda affecting the masses to excite the future generations by painting an image of 'victimhood' where the Other remains an antagonist, and sowing the potential for increased violence, subjugation, persecution, censorship and implied prejudice to the level of the institution and the individual.  The NEP appears to be a blatant, institutionalized attempt at a social programming of a population that is being designed to unquestionably produce and consume, through the streamlining of academic media that is neutralized and clogs all attempts to teach the art of questioning authority.
Key words: revisionism, historical narrative, erasure, NEP 2020, propaganda.