The deletion of three chapters of the history textbook of Class 9 has been carried out in the name of reducing the burden on children. Quantifying burden in this manner and equating it with “bulk” alone reflects a myopic view of the problem of academic load and its relationship with textbooks, and is an attempt to invisiblise interconnections between time, place and ideas/events, intersectionalities between caste, class, andgender, and issues of conflict and social injustice.