“…The history textbook revision exercises were influenced by religion as it became a key pillar to construct the national political, cultural and historical narrative around it. The Indian history textbooks removed references to Muslim rulers and added more references of Hindu rulers in their history textbook (Dalrymple, 2005;Emerson & Levi, 2020;Habib, Jaiswal, & Aditya, 2003;Rahman, Hamzah, Meerah, & Rahman, 2010;Rosser, 2003;Sen, 2012;Sharma, 2020). These studies also revealed how Bangladesh and India were reinventing their history and reinterpreting different historical events shared by these countries to suit their narrational, political, cultural and religious narratives.…”