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July 23, 2009

The Hindutva View of History: Rewriting Textbooks in India and the United States

Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Issue 10.1 Winter/Spring 2009

The Hindutva View of History: Rewriting Textbooks in India and the United States
by Kamala Visweswaran, Michael Witzel, Nandini Manjrekar,
Dipta Bhog, Uma Chakravarti

Organizations associated with India's BJP political party and the Sangh Parivar have attempted to fundamentally and inaccurately revise textbooks to propagate a Hindu nationalist view in Californian and Indian schoolbooks.