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In California textbooks row, a win-win situation, apparently

Mozumder, Suman Guha
India Abroad
03-24-2006
With the state board finally endorsing a mixed bag of changes to
representation of history, both right and left groups claim victory

The six-month-old battle between rival groups over changes in Gade VI
history and social science textbooks in California ended last week with the
State Board of Education deciding to endorse the recommendations of a
special sub-committee on the issue.

On March 8, the Board voted 9-0 to endorse the February 27 recommendations
of the subcommittee which, in an admittedly compromise decision, had
requested the board to adopt the changes on the portrayal of ancient
Hinduism in the textbooks.

Ironically, both sides - the Hindu ...

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