The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) consulted 25 external experts to carry out its syllabus rationalisation exercise as part of which it spiked portions on Mughals, Mahatma Gandhi, his assassin Nathuram Godse, reference to Hindu extremists and the 2002 Gujarat riots, among others, from school textbooks. According to a written response to a Lok Sabha question, groups of such experts of two to five each were engaged by the seven subject departments of the NCERT, whose “in-house experts” were also involved in the process.