NCERT's new Class 8 Social Sciences textbook flags brutality and intolerance of Mughals and Delhi Sultanate. It describes Babur as a "brutal and ruthless conqueror, slaughtering entire populations of cities", Akbar's reign as a "blend of brutality and tolerance" and Aurangzeb who destroyed temples and gurdwaras. It states in Delhi Sultanate period, villages, cities and temples were destroyed.