Indian school textbook writers recently trimmed the contents of the curriculum to exclude the Babri mosque demolition and riots in its wake. In doing so, India has joined the ranks of countries with dubious human rights records. This includes the “flawed” regimes of Serbia, which has banned teaching about the Srebrenica genocide of 1995 simply because the Serbs refuse to accept that they committed mass killings. The Bharatiya Janata Party and its parent organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, described the textbook modifications “reforms” in school education (as Hitler and the Nazis did in their time). In fact, two decades ago,...