Shah Rukh Khan expresses his happiness after being conferred honorary doctorate by Hyderabad's Maulana Azad National Urdu University | NDTV

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, India’s first Education Minister (1947–1958), laid the foundation for how post-Independence history would be taught. Azad believed that India’s medieval period should be presented in a way that avoided Hindu–Muslim hostility, and repeatedly warned that “selective history” could become a weapon in the hands of extremists. He pushed for: • Removing inflammatory descriptions from school history • Softening accounts of medieval religious conflict • Highlighting cultural synt