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‘Freedom fighters’ or ‘terrorists’?

Indians take West Bengal government to task over history textbooks.

The Government of the Indian State of West Bengal has come under fire online for eighth grade textbooks that label the activities of independence movement figures as “extremism and terrorism“. The men in question – Shahid Khudiram Bose, Jatindranath Mukherjee and Prafulla Chaki – are viewed by many Indians as revolutionary freedom fighters.