By Steve FarmerLast week this article in the Indian magazine Frontline reported that the Hindu Right’s attempts to rewrite California school textbooks on India and Hinduism were meeting with strong resistance from renowned historians and scholars in the U.S. and abroad. Steve Farmer is one of those scholars; he reported on that resistance and the [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Hindutva, California Textbooks and a Smear Campaign
Posted in California Text Books, tagged Aryans, California, Farmer, Harvard University, Hindu, Hindutva, History, India, Indian History, Indology, Witzel on December 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
UP Muslims ask to detoxify 31 text books from Hindutva history
Posted in Hindutva, tagged UP on December 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
LUCKNOW: Saffronisation of education, it seems, has not phased out with the BJP government in UP. With compilation of anti-Islamic references in 31 text books prescribed for from class V to class XII, Deeni Talimi Council— the oldest and largest of madrasa in the state— has petitioned chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav for detoxing school [...]
