{"id":161,"date":"2003-12-30T19:10:27","date_gmt":"2003-12-30T23:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2003\/12\/30\/distorting-history\/"},"modified":"2003-12-30T19:10:27","modified_gmt":"2003-12-30T23:10:27","slug":"distorting-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2003\/12\/30\/distorting-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Distorting History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a38'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The Telegraph <A href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1031230\/asp\/opinion\/story_2730854.asp\">reports today<\/A> about the completed report of the Asian Centre for Human Rights on education in India for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.&nbsp; The alternate report discusses the promotion of hatred against minority religious communities&nbsp; through history textbooks, focusing on textbooks prepared by both the Gujarat State Board and the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.cbse.nic.in\/\">Central Board<\/A> that promote disrespect for tribals and Sikhs, among others:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The Class 12 students sitting for their board examinations in Gujarat on April 22, 2002 were put to a grammar test. The English paper asked them to remove the word &#x201C;if&#x201D; and rewrite the sentence, &#x201C;If you don&#x2019;t like people, kill them&#x201D;. This was followed by another question asking students to rewrite a short passage as a single sentence. The passage read:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">&#x201C;There are two solutions. One of them is the Nazi solution. If you don&#x2019;t like people, kill them, segregate them. Then strut up and down. Proclaim that you are the salt of the earth&#x201D;.<\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph reports today about the completed report of the Asian Centre for Human Rights on education in India for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.&nbsp; The alternate report discusses the promotion of hatred against minority religious communities&nbsp; through history textbooks, focusing on textbooks prepared by both the Gujarat State Board and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}