On 15 April 2016 at 21:39, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hindutva Efforts to Rewrite History in California Schools Fail
// The Wire

Right-wing Hindu groups are seeking to gloss over Indian history and deny the reality of caste discrimination by deleting the word ‘Dalit’ from the history textbooks in California.

Are the author and the the report reliable? I searched the 477-page summary table report document of suggested revisions to Draft History-Social Science Framework (available from http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/cc/cd/documents/hsssummarypubcomments.doc). The word does not occur even once in the document. Then from where did the author pull this statement (italics mine):

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Right-wing Hindu groups are seeking to gloss over Indian history and deny the reality of caste discrimination by deleting the word ‘Dalit’ from the history textbooks in California.

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Can somebody point to a source which corroborates the claim regarding the word Dalit by the author?