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

 
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Visweswaran, Kamala
Manjrekar, Nandini
Bhog, Dipta
Chakravarti, Uma
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Visweswaran, Kamala, Michael Witzel, Nandini Manjrenkar, Dipta Bhog, and Uma Chakravarti. 2009. The Hindutva view of history: rewriting textbooks in India and the United States. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 10(1):101-112.
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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.
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