NCERT Class 9 textbook revives debatable Sengol transfer theory

The newly released NCERT Class 9 social science textbook states that the Sengol marked the transfer of power to India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1947.

The textbook titled 'Understanding Society and Beyond - Part 2' describes the sceptre as a cultural marker of good governance placed in the new Parliament by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2023.

Historians have previously disputed this claim, noting a lack of documentary evidence in the personal papers of Nehru or C. Rajagopalachari regarding the Sengol as a formal transfer symbol.