Several glaring factual errors were found in school textbooks from the western Indian state of Gujarat.
"Japan dropped atomic bomb on America in World War II," according to textbooks meant for sixth to eighth grade students in Gujarat's state-run schools, according to an NDTV India report.
The textbooks, published by the state where Mahatma Gandhi was born, also get the date of his assassination wrong.
The textbooks say Gandhi was assassinated on Oct. 30, 1948, when in fact he was killed on Jan. 30, 1948.
These are just some of the numerous factual errors in the textbooks published by the Gujarat Council of Educational Research and Training (GCERT).
The eighth grade social science textbook being used by more than 50,000 students has over 120 factual, spelling and grammatical errors.
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