02 Academic issues

II. ACADEMIC ISSUES AND RELATED RESOURCES

A. FAQ/ General Articles on Academic Issues:

• [Memorandum presented by a Hindu in Sacramento, California,](SueStickel Meeting.pdf) to Sue Stickel and Tom Adams of CDE on 10 February 2006

• FAQ giving a summary of the academic issues over depiction of Hinduism and Ancient India: Hating Hindus in a Scholarly Way by Vishal Agarwal

• Academic Review of Criticisms of Hindu Edits by 2nd CRP (Michael Witzel, Stanley Wopert, James Heitzman advising) by a Team of Scholars [This is a 91 page PDF but is downloadable easily

• Contradictions in State Board of California’s final decision on Hinduism Related edits

B. CA textbooks and Women in Hindu Dharma

• “Women in Hinduism and CA textbooks” by Vishal Agarwal
  Part I
  Part II
  Part III

• Status of Women in Ancient India by Karthik Kalavai Venkat

• Do California Textbooks Discriminate against Hindus? How do they describe the Role of Women, by Vishal Agarwal (03/08/06)

• Women in Shri Vaishnav Hinduism

C. Hindu notions of Divinity

• Is Hinduism Monotheistic by Karthik Kalavai Venkat

• Hinduism 101 dt. 02/10/06 in the ‘United Press International’

• Hindu Notions of Unity of Divinity

D. Caste and Untouchability

• Dalit or Harijan By R.Upadhyay

• [Dalit or Harijan](Dalit or Harijan.pdf)

• Do Hindu edits Whitewash Untouchability? Fosa Spreads False Propaganda” by Vishal Agarwal (published on 03/04/06)

• Your Child is a Broken Person by Karthik Kalavai Venktat

• Seminal role of Non-Brahmins in Hindu traditions by Vishal Agarwal

• Passages from authoritative and popular Hindu texts advocating liberal versions of Varna system, brief collection by Vishal Agarwal

E. Academic Aryanism and the Origins of Hinduism:

• What is the Aryan Migration Theoryby Vishal Agarwal

• “Witzel’s Vanishing Ocean, How to read the Vedas anyway you want”by David Frawley

• “Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate”by Koenraad Elst

• “History of Hinduism and the Aryan Invasion Theory”BBC website

F. CA Department of Education Documents:

• California State Board Learning Standards for Grade VI Chapter on Ancient India and Hinduism

• California Department of Education Guidelines for depiction of Religion in Social Science Textbooks: See page 11

• California Department of Education Framework for History and Social Science in Public Schools,

• Learning Resource Display Centers (Addresses of CA County offices where proposed textbooks are displayed for comment)

• CA History-Social Science Content Standards for Public Schools, by Department of Education,

G. Older Articles on Textbook Adoption Process and Misc.

• State Textbook Adoption

• Judging Books by their Covers by Dr Richard Feynman

• Why don’t we fix our Textbooks dt. 05/22/05 in The Washington Post

• American Textbook Council website

• The Textbook Adoption Mess