Deepender Hooda questions map showing Haryana part of Maratha Empire

The NCERT has now waded into a new controversy after a Class VIII social science textbook, which shows the Bharatpur Jat state under Maharaja Surajmal, as being part of the Maratha Empire in 1759.

Congress MP from Rohtak, Deepender Hooda launched an attack against the NCERT on X: “Maharaja Surajmal was not just Bharatpur’s but the pride of the whole of India. In the 1759 map of the schoolchildren’s history book (2025 edition) published by the government (NCERT), the name of the Bharatpur princely state has been erased and the entire Haryana including Bharatpur has been shown under the Maratha Empire, which is a blatant lie — the truth is that Haryana was never under the Maratha Empire and in 1759 Bharatpur was a Jat princely state,” he said.

He said the removal of Bharatpur Empire from the the NCERT map was injustice to history and history was being presented in a distorted manner under some conspiracy.