Perhaps. It is still not the finest hour for journalism. The reporter takes words from activists like Thenmozhi Soundararajan straight into the sub-headline without any fact-checking. 

Article body: “According to activists like Soundararajan, right-wing Hindu groups want to gloss over Indian history and deny the reality of caste discrimination by deleting the word ‘Dalit’ from the history textbooks of the state.”

Sub-headline: “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.”

Even if one concedes Soundararajan mistook references to untouchables/untouchability as the word Dalit, most probably she still has her facts wrong. Four comments in the summary table document (2514, 2516, 2517, and 2518) concern untouchables/untouchability. Of these, comments by the Hindu groups (2514 by the Uberoi Foundation and 2518 by the Hindu American Foundation) suggest replacing the term ‘Untouchables’ with ‘socially and economically disadvantaged communities’ and ‘socially ostracized and economically disadvantaged communities’, respectively. Comments 2516 and 2517 requesting for deleting references to untouchables/untouchability are by individuals (Hemant Thobbi and Sandeep Dedge respectively) and not Hindu groups. Of these, Hemant Thobbi requested deletion of references to Untouchability on account of equal treatment to all cultures (“lawfully omitting similar parallels for other cultures is discriminatory”) while Sandeep Dedge suggested deleting this reference without any reason.