Government textbooks in India are full of errors, high comedy, racism.

It hasn't been a good couple of years for the India state board textbook system. A myriad of errors were shown to exist in last year's textbooks, which Indian officials promised would be fixed by this year's publication.

Yeah, but...no. This year's textbooks show many of the same errors as last year's textbooks (like sections of India missing on maps, among other delights), and include a variety of new mistakes.

Besides a slew of serious spelling snafus, the errors in this year's newly re-published edition include:

1.)  Referring to Alexander the Great as 'Alexandria.'
2.)  Detailing the Worli River--a river that doesn't actually exist.
3.)  African citizens referred to as 'Negroes.'
4.)  Malad and Vasai Creeks, which connect Mumbai to the Indian Ocean, appearing on land.

Shobha Ramana, a local history teacher, explained the plight further to Mid-Day that "even the history textbooks have so many grammatical and factual errors." The problems aren't just factual, Ramana says. "Many chapters are not structured well," she said, "and the entire essence of history has gone for a toss in these textbooks."

Well, Alexander the Great's gender certainly has certainly gone for a toss, that much we know.