Deepender Hooda Challenges NCERT Map Showing Haryana Under Maratha Rule

Congress MP from Rohtak, Deepender Hooda, has strongly criticized the NCERT over a controversial map in a Class VIII social science textbook that shows Haryana as part of the Maratha Empire in 1759.

The textbook shows the Bharatpur Jat state under Maharaja Surajmal as being under Maratha control, which has sparked significant controversy. Hooda launched his attack on social media platform X, calling the representation completely false. 

"Maharaja Surajmal was not just Bharatpur's but the pride of the whole of India. In the 1759 map of the schoolchildren's history book (2025 edition) published by the government (NCERT), the name of the Bharatpur princely state has been erased and the entire Haryana including Bharatpur has been shown under the Maratha Empire, which is a blatant lie," Hooda said.

The Congress leader emphasized that Haryana was never under Maratha Empire control and that Bharatpur was an independent Jat princely state in 1759. He accused NCERT of presenting distorted history as part of some conspiracy.

Hooda asserted that historical facts were being purposefully misrepresented and called the exclusion of the Bharatpur Empire from the NCERT map "injustice to history." The representation of regional kingdoms and empires in educational materials and the historical accuracy of Indian school textbooks are two topics that are currently being debated, and this most recent controversy adds to those discussions.

Concerns regarding the way historical narratives are taught to students and the significance of accurately portraying India's varied regional histories are brought to light by this issue.