What Indian School Textbooks Say About Britain

What do Indian school textbooks teach kids about Britain? I read the new NCERT history textbooks that 13-year-olds across India started using in 2025 and 2026, and quote what they say about the British: the painting of Britannia, the famines, the railways, Amritsar, Churchill and the partition line. In this video: • The David Cameron phrase an Indian textbook uses to show Britain never said sorry • Simran Kaur and the family memory of Amritsar • "Indians funded their own subjugation": the textbook's answer to "we built them the railways" • Why Britain still hasn't apologised for Jallianwala Bagh • Churchill, the 1943 Bengal famine, and where the textbook simplifies • The quiz where Churchill is the wrong answer • The homework: "Talk to your grandparents" CHAPTERS 0:00 "The British government has not apologised" 0:42 What English schools don't teach 1:21 "As if I have seen it": Simran Kaur 2:00 The painting of Britannia 2:52 The famines 4:07 "Indians funded their own subjugation" 5:03 The "civilising mission" and the stolen statues 6:17 Amritsar, 1919 7:06 Tagore and Udham Singh 7:46 Why Britain never apologised 8:52 The Rowlatt Act and Justin Rowlatt 9:34 Churchill and the Bengal famine 10:01 Where the textbook simplifies 10:58 The quiz: Cripps and Radcliffe 11:40 What Britons think of the empire 12:11 The homework 12:56 What would you tell your grandchild? All textbook quotes are verbatim from the NCERT Grade 8 social science textbook "Exploring Society: India and Beyond" (Parts 1 and 2, 2025–26); the page is on screen with every quote. Image, video and music credits are in the pinned comment. What did your school teach you about Amritsar? Tell us in the comments. Britain In Their Eyes: what schools in other countries teach kids about Britain. Subscribe for the next country. #India #Britain #IndianTextbooks #History #UK