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A few days after Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani criticised what children are taught in 4th standard, a trend emerged on Twitter on Wednesday demanding to remove Mughals from books taught in school. In Rajya Sabha last week, Irani was furious how children are taught Hindu-Christian riots in Kanyakumari and stories against Shivaji.
The hashtag #RemoveMughalsFromBooks has been the top trend on the microblogging site; inevitably, Twitterati can’t stop talking about it. There are people who vehemently want to remove them and there are people who think it’s impossible to remove an integral era from history and it shouldn’t be.
And then there are people who are making full use of the trend to crack jokes:
https://twitter.com/jimmy9_girl/status/704857893049233408
https://twitter.com/tyrantasorus/status/704939902643916800
https://twitter.com/KobaElTigre/status/704938903736860672
