Talk:Anand Vedawala
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Anand Vedawala is a a kindergarten teacher for San Francisco Unified School District and the executive director of San Francisco Zine Fest[1] as of June 2024.
He has published no books, research or papers pertaining to Hindus, Ancient India, Indus Civilization or caste.
In 2016, he signed a letter addressed to the California Department of Education where he[2]:
- Misrepresented academic concensus, ignoring scholarship stating "According to scholarly consensus, the Indus Valley Civilization predates Hindu Vedic culture Labeling the ancient pre-Hindu Indus Valley Civilization as “Saraswati,” “Sindh-Saraswati,” or mentioning the Saraswati river"[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
- Gaslit anyone with a different point of view by calling them 'Hindu Nationalist'
References[edit]
- ↑ Vedawala @ART Profile accessed on June 18, 2024
- ↑ 5-17 Thenmozhi Soundararajan South Asian Histories for All + Sikh Coalition
- ↑ Chakrabarti, Dilip, and Sukhdev Saini. The Problem of the Sarasvati River and Notes on the Archaeological Geography of Haryana and Indian Punjab. Aryan Books International, 2009.
- ↑ Danino, Michel. The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati. Penguin Books, 2010.
- ↑ McIntosh, Jane R. A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization. Westview Press, 2002, p. 24. where she stated "Suddenly it became apparent that the “Indus” Civilization was a misnomer—although the Indus had played a major role in the development of the civilization, the “lost Saraswati” River, judging by the density of settlement along its banks, had contributed an equal or greater part to its prosperity. Many people today refer to this early state as the “Indus-Saraswati Civilization” and continuing references to the “Indus Civilization” should be an abbreviation in which the “Saraswati” is implied. There are some fifty sites known along the Indus whereas the Saraswati has almost 1,000. This is misleading figure because erosion and alluviation has between them destroyed or deeply buried the greater part of settlements in the Indus Valley itself, but there can be no doubt that the Saraswati system did yield a high proportion of the Indus people’s agricultural produce"
- ↑ Gupta, S. P. “The Dawn of Civilization.” History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: Volume I: Part 1, edited by G. C. Pandey and D. P. Chattopadhyaya, Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 1999.
- ↑ Dikshit, K. N. “Origin of Early Harappan Cultures in the Sarasvati Valley: Recent Archaeological Evidence and Radiometric Dates.” Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology, vol. 9, 2013, pp. 132.
- ↑ Kautilya. The Arthaśāstra. Translated and edited by L. N. Rangarajan, Penguin Books, 1992.
- ↑ Kenoyer, Jonathan Mark. Ancient Cities of the Indus Civilization. Oxford University Press, 1998.
- ↑ Lal, B. B. Piecing Together: Memoirs of an Archaeologist. Aryan International Books, 2011.
- ↑ McIntosh, Jane R. A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization. Westview Press, 2002.
- ↑ Possehl, Gregory L. Indus Age: The Beginnings. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
- ↑ Possehl, Gregory L. The Indus Civilization. Alta Mira Press, 2002.
- ↑ Sarkar, Anindya, et al. “Oxygen Isotope in Archaeological Bioapatites from India: Implications to Climate Change and Decline of Bronze Age Harappan civilization.” Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 6, May 2016, pp. 1–9. doi:10.1038/srep26555.