Sharpstown Prince

What does Qatari-sponsored history of India for American K-12 school kids look like? This curriculum was purchased and pushed into U.S. schools; Qatari funded Brown University's Watson Institute (we critiqued in Snakes in the Ganga). Some highlights: • "Muslim rulers generally treated Hindus with great tolerance" • Bhagavad Gita taught "the importance of following the rules of one's caste." • Text frames the British colonial administration as well-meaning "honest broker." • The curriculum spins the Khilafat movement was for religious harmony. • Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah at the absolute center of the freedom struggle, blacking-out India's actual freedom fighters—framing freedom as a legalistic negotiation between them and British elites. • Pakistan believed that because Kashmir was overwhelmingly Muslim, it belonged to the great Muslim community of which Pakistan envisioned itself. Quotes on Jinnah: • “Of all the political leaders of early twentieth century India, Jinnah worked the hardest for unity between Hindu and Muslim." • "It was Congress that insisted on partition. It was Jinnah who was against partition." • "I have much sympathy with Jinnah, who is straighter, more positive and more sincere than most of the Congress leaders...." • "He was like God – although we Muslims can’t say God. He was on a pedestal; he was our salvation." • "The two things that made the greatest impression on me were seeing the Taj Mahal and Mr. Jinnah for the first time. These overwhelmed me as nothing had done in the whole of my life." cdn.cocodoc.com/cocodoc-form… @InfinityMessage @IFIMessage #SnakesInTheGanga #Education #India #Gandhi #Jinnah #Partition