{"id":14962,"date":"2016-05-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/05\/24\/india-survives-in-california-textbooks\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T12:00:00","slug":"india-survives-in-california-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/05\/24\/india-survives-in-california-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"India &#8216;Survives&#8217; in California Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/India-survives-in-California-textbooks\/articleshow\/52368901.cms\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTION, D.C., US, May 21, 2016 (Times of India by Chidanand Rajghatta): India has survived in California school textbooks. Nothing calamitous was going happen to the country itself, but a pedagogical and academic battle over use of the term &#8220;India&#8221; over &#8220;South Asia&#8221; has been resolved to the satisfaction of overseas Indian nationalistic groups and Indophiles.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the battle was a tussle between the nationalist groups and a few academics over using the term &#8220;South Asia&#8221; in place of India in certain contexts in school textbooks in California. Some leftist historians had petitioned for a change, maintaining among other views, that &#8220;India&#8221; was a post-colonial entity, and the term &#8220;South Asia&#8221; would be better suited while teaching ancient history of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, many of the edits petitioned by the South Asia Faculty Group, including a demand to delete &#8220;Hinduism&#8221; and replace it with &#8220;religion of ancient India,&#8221; were rejected. &#8220;For years, the American perception of Hinduism and India has been overly simplistic and inaccurate, in part due to the content of California textbooks,&#8221; said Samir Kalra, senior director for the Hindu American Foundation, which joined nationalist groups in challenging efforts to &#8220;South Asianise&#8221; the region&#8217;s history. &#8220;There are nearly a million Indian and Hindu Americans who call California home, so it&#8217;s important for them to see their cultural and religious heritage represented with accuracy and parity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source WASHINGTION, D.C., US, May 21, 2016 (Times of India by Chidanand Rajghatta): India has survived in California school textbooks.,&#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-14962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962","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=14962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}