New Delhi, Dec. 2 :    New Delhi, Dec. 2:  Much before Parliament erupted in controversy over history, a government-appointed panel had frowned on the books used in the RSS-run Vidya Bharati schools. A series of booklets used in the over 6,000 Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan schools, in the form of a question-answer series, expose an agenda to promote communal and chauvinistic ideas, said the National Steering Committee on Textbook Evaluation appointed by the human resources development ministry in 1993. The 16-member committee headed by Bipan Chandra, then professor at Centre for Historical Studies, and comprising eminent historians submitted its recommendations in 1994 but they were never implemented. The number of students in the schools, the first of which was set up in 1978, is 12,00,000 now, and have some 40,000 teachers. 'Much of the material (taught in the RSS-run schools) is designed to promote bigotry and religious fanaticism in the name of inculcating knowledge of culture in the young generation. That this material is being used as teaching and examination material in schools which, presumably, have been accorded recognition should be a matter of serious concern,' the committee said. The materials the panel objected to make for some interesting reading: How many devotees of Ram laid down their lives to liberate Ram temple from 1528 to 1914? -'Three-lakh-fifty thousand.' (There is no mention of how the schools arrived at this figure). 'Thousands of opponents of idol worship, the followers of Islam, go to the pilgrimage centre of Islamic community at Kaaba to worship 'Shivalinga'. In Muslim society, the greatest wish is to have a darshan of that black stone (Shivlinga)'. The credit for lighting the lamp of culture in China goes to the ancient Indians. The first people who began to inhabit China were Indians. The first people to settle in Iran were Indians. Besides Pakistan and Bangladesh, Tibet, Nepal Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Brahmadesh (Myanmar) are all supposed to have been parts of India. What is the name of the island in the south which touches the feet of Bharat Mata and reminds us of Sri Ramchandra's victory over Ravan and which was a part of our country at one time? Many of these booklets, the report said, have a section each on 'Sri Ramjanmabhumi'. Some of the questions contained are: How many times the foreigners invaded Shri Ramjanmabhumi? 'Seventy-seven times.' What was the number of the struggle for the liberation of Ram Janmabhumi which was launched on October 30, 1990? '78th struggle.' Why will November 2, 1990 be inscribed in black letters in the history of India? - On that day, the then chief minister (of Uttar Pradesh) ordered the police to shoot unarmed kar sevaks and massacred hundreds of them. Which Muslim plunderer invaded the temples in Ayodhya in 1033? - Mahmud Ghaznavi's nephew Salar Masud. Which Mughal invader destroyed the Ram temple in 1528? 'Babur.' On Christianity, the Series No. 12 says: 'It is because of the conspiratorial policies of the followers of this religion that India was partitioned. Even today, Christian missionaries are engaged in fostering anti-national tendencies in Nagaland, Meghalaya, Arunachal, Bihar, Kerala and other regions of our country because of which there is a grave danger to the integrity of present day India.' The RSS has arisen to end the misery and for the defence of the greatness of Bharatiya sanskriti, the report quoted a booklet as saying.