The textbooks will now also include the achievements of the Surapura Naikas to assuage the “hurt feelings” of Lingayat, Vokkaliga and Naika communities.
A lesson on Bhakti and Sufi saints, including passages on Purandaradasa and Kanakadasa, will be added in the Class VII Social Science textbook, the notification said.
However, there is no clarity on how the passage on 12th-century reformer Basaveshwara will be edited.
The changes to the revised textbooks will be brought out in the form of a booklet and issued across schools as the revised textbooks have already been distributed.