![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Witzel, Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University organized Indologists against the objections of Hindu groups, sending a letter with some fifty signatories to the CDE to protest changes of a "religious-political nature". ![]() Bajpai, who was selected by the Vedic Foundation for the task, approved nearly all the changes while presented by the VF as an independent scholar, it later came out that he was a member of a closely affiliated organization. The California Department of Education (CDE) initially sought to resolve the controversy by appointing Shiva Bajpai, Professor Emeritus at California State University Northridge, as a one-man committee to review revisions proposed by the groups. The Texas-based Vedic Foundation (VF) and the American Hindu Education Foundation (HEF), complained to California's Curriculum Commission, arguing that the coverage in sixth grade history textbooks of Indian history and Hinduism was biased against Hinduism points of contention included a textbook's portrayal of the caste system, the Indo-Aryan migration theory, and the status of women in Indian society. A controversy in the US state of California concerning the portrayal of Hinduism in history textbooks began in 2005.
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