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Distorting History
December 30, 2003 |
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. The alternate report discusses the promotion of hatred against minority religious communities through history textbooks, focusing on textbooks prepared by both the Gujarat State Board and the Central Board that promote disrespect for tribals and Sikhs, among others:
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 “if” and rewrite the sentence, “If you don’t like people, kill them”. This was followed by another question asking students to rewrite a short passage as a single sentence. The passage read:
“There are two solutions. One of them is the Nazi solution. If you don’t like people, kill them, segregate them. Then strut up and down. Proclaim that you are the salt of the earth”.
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