Michel Danino, Guest Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Archaeological Sciences) and Head of the Curricular Area Group for Social Science textbooks - a body working in collaboration with the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) - speaks to The Hindu about the process of designing new middle school Social Science textbooks, the latest being for class eight, and the controversies surrounding the portrayal of the Mughals and the colonial era in the revised material.