New Delhi: Raising the issue during Zero Hour in the Rajya Sabha, BJP MP from Odisha, Sujeet Kumar, called for an urgent review of school textbooks, government documents, and official websites that continue to refer to British Governors-General and Viceroys with the colonial honorific ‘Lord’.

Kumar said he had conducted a random check of NCERT history textbooks for Classes 8 and 12, as well as websites of ministries such as the Ministry of Culture, Press Information Bureau, and Archaeological Survey of India, and found “dozens of references” to figures like Lord Curzon, Lord Mountbatten, and Lord Dalhousie.

He noted that even Raj Bhavan, Bihar’s official portal, had used the term “Lord” to describe colonial administrators.

“It is unfortunate that even after 78 years of Independence, we

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