{"id":14807,"date":"2016-03-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/03\/18\/hindus-petition-board-of-education-over-replacing-india-with-south-asia-in-california-history-social-science-curriculum\/"},"modified":"2016-03-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T12:00:00","slug":"hindus-petition-board-of-education-over-replacing-india-with-south-asia-in-california-history-social-science-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/03\/18\/hindus-petition-board-of-education-over-replacing-india-with-south-asia-in-california-history-social-science-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus Petition Board of Education Over Replacing &#8220;India&#8221; with &#8220;South Asia&#8221; in California History Social Science Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/academia-don-t-replace-india-with-south-asia-in-california-history-textbooks?recruiter=372905288&#038;utm_source=share_petition&#038;utm_medium=copylink\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, March 17, 2016: A petition on the above topic has been posted at change.org. The introduction reads:<\/p>\n<p>School students in California will be forced to learn that there was never an &#8220;India&#8221; unless you act! A small group of South Asia studies faculty recently asked the California Board of Education to change the History Social Science Frameworks (Syllabus) so that the word &#8220;India&#8221; will be removed and replaced with &#8220;South Asia.&#8221; They believe that India did not exist before 1947 and want a stereotypical and concocted generalization like &#8220;South Asia&#8221; to be used for almost all discussions of Indian history before 1947. <\/p>\n<p>If you thought the California textbooks were problematic, they are going to get far worse now, and they won&#8217;t be any change for another ten years if you don&#8217;t act fast! Please sign in support of the open letter to the board initiated by several scholars. Finally, please remember this concerns the future of India and all its people.<\/p>\n<p>The petition and more information at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, March 17, 2016: A petition on the above topic has been posted at change.org. The introduction,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}