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Textbooks published by NCERT are prescribed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) [8] from classes I to XII, with exceptions for a few subjects, especially for the Class 10 and 12 Board Examination. Around 19 school boards from 14 states have adopted or adapted the books. [11]
On 12 April 2018, the police said that Rakesh Kumar, who leaked the class 12 economics paper, had leaked class 10 mathematics paper also. [40] Consequently, the Central Board of Secondary Education has put in place a system of "encrypted" question papers, which are supposed to be printed by the schools half an hour before the exam starts. [41]
Apart from this, from Class 12 civics book Politics in Indian since Independence, chapters like Rise of popular movements, ‘Era of one-party dominance’ have been removed. From the class 10 Democratic Politics-II textbooks, chapters like ‘Democracy and diversity’, ‘Popular struggles and movement’, ‘Challenges to democracy’ have ...
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [ 4 ]
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Examples of books with claimed high sales include The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, [10] Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, [11] Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en [12] and The Lord of the Rings [13] (which has been sold as both a three volume series, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, as a ...
Scotland has in the late 20th century produced several important novelists, including James Kelman who like Samuel Beckett can create humour out of grim situations; A. L. Kennedy whose 2007 novel Day was named Book of the Year in the Costa Book Awards.; [152] Alasdair Gray whose Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) is a dystopian fantasy set in ...
Shota Rustaveli poet of the 12th century, author of "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" Chrétien de Troyes flourishes in the 1170s and 1180s; Marie de France flourishes from approximately 1170 through 1205/1210, author of lais in Anglo-Norman; Jean Bodel; Undated troubadors. Bernart de Ventadorn (c. 1130s - c. 1190s) Cercamon (fl. 1130s and 1140s)