Original sentence: According to The Guardian, the textbooks depicted India's past Muslim rulers "as barbarous invaders and the medieval period as a dark age of Islamic colonial rule which snuffed out the glories of the Hindu empire that preceded it".In 2004, several Indian school textbooks were scrapped by the National Council of Educational Research and Training after they were found to be loaded with anti-Muslim prejudice.In 2005, human rights campaigners in Gujarat condemned textbooks issued by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which praised Hitler's internal policies within the Nazi government.The NCERT argued that the books were "written by scholars hand-picked by the previous Hindu nationalist administration"