{"id":5745,"date":"2005-12-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/12\/03\/2005-12-03-news-update-hindus-unexpected-win-textbook-changes-in-california\/"},"modified":"2005-12-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T12:00:00","slug":"2005-12-03-news-update-hindus-unexpected-win-textbook-changes-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/12\/03\/2005-12-03-news-update-hindus-unexpected-win-textbook-changes-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"News Update: Hindus Unexpected Win Textbook Changes in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">HPI<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, December 13, 2005: California Hindus were celebrating today their victory in yesterday&#8217;s meeting of the State Board of Education Curriculum Commission. The Vedic Foundation (http:\/\/www.thevedicfoundation.org\/) and Hindu Education Foundation (http:\/\/www.hindueducation.org\/) worked for months to have changes made to sections of California textbooks that deal with India and Hinduism. Then there was a hasty intervention by a group of scholars of Indology which threatened to reverse many of the changes. Fortunately, the Curriculum Commission sympathized with the Hindus and allowed only a few changes to what Hindus had requested. Unfortunately, they could only get relatively small adjustments on the &#8220;Aryan Invasion&#8221; issue, changing the wording to &#8220;Aryan migration,&#8221; but leaving the general concept intact. Full story in tomorrow&#8217;s HPI.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HPI SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, December 13, 2005: California Hindus were celebrating today their victory in yesterday&#8217;s meeting of the State Board,&#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-5745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745","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=5745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}