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 [...]
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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 »
Yankee Hindutva: Indian Jim Crow in “Victim” Garb
Posted in California Text Books, tagged Hindutva, India, Indian History, Indology, RSS, Yankee on February 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
2005 has been a terrible year for the human rights of African Americans in the United States. Facing assaults on livelihoods, falling incomes, rampant police violence and brutality, cuts in social spending and a generally cruel and undisguised contempt from the reactionary Bush administration, African Americans will remember 2005 as the year that saw the [...]
I hate people who misrepresent history : Professor Michael Witzel
Posted in California Text Books, tagged Harvard, Hindu, Hindutva, India, Indian History, Indology, Michael Witzel, RSS on December 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Professor Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Harvard University, shot off a letter to the California Board of Education on November 8 after coming to know what he described was US-based Hindu groups’s attempt to have sections of school textbooks relating to information on ancient India, [...]
