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This book is an expose of McGraw Hill's history textbooks for school-going children in California containing Hinduphobic material, set into motion during the British colonial period. The textbooks describe Hinduism as an oppressive religion, framing it primarily in the context of caste oppression and caste hierarchy and distort the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata to prove the point. They promote Buddhism as an improvement upon Hinduism and attribute the greatness of the Mauryan civilization to Buddhist beliefs. The textbooks are guilty of not incorporating the last five decades of research on the Harappan civilization, which otherwise would have shifted the epicenter of the civilization to both the Sarasvati and Indus river systems and linked modern Hinduism with the Harappans. Instead, they describe the migration of Aryans masquerading the earlier discredited theory of Aryans as a race and the Aryan invasion. Though written in the backdrop of textbook adoption process in the California school system, the material discussed is representative and characteristic of slandering and inaccurate materials taught on India and Hinduism all over the world. The analysis involves evidence and critical thought.
