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Paul Balazs and his students spent several months clearing an overgrown plot of land that would become the Peace and Sustainability Garden.
If their story is missing from classrooms, what do Dalit students learn about themselves? In the first analysis of caste bias in Indian textbooks, researchers from ISI-Bengaluru and IIT-Hyderabad found in a case study that for every 16 pages on dominant castes, there was just one on Dalits. "Academic research on textbooks in India has largely focused on issues of communalisation of history, and gender... The presence of caste bias in textbooks has not been systematically examined in the Indian context thus far," the paper, 'Caste biases in school textbooks: a case study from Odisha, India, p...