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In this book, we analyze the psycho-social consequences faced by Indian American children after exposure to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. We demonstrate that there is an intimate connection—an almost exact correspondence—between James Mill’s colonial-racist discourse (Mill was the head of the British East India Company) and the current school textbook discourse. This racist discourse, camouflaged under the cover of political correctness, produces the same psychological impacts on Indian American children that racism typically causes: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon akin to racelessness, where children dissociate from the traditions and culture of their ancestors.


This book is the result of four years of rigorous research and academic peer-review, reflecting our ongoing commitment at Hindupedia to challenge the representation of Hindu Dharma within academia.

Ayyan azhagan

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

ayyan azhagan.

By

Ambujam Krishna

Translated by

P.R.Ramachander

Raga Surutti
Thala Chapu

Pallavi

Ayyan Azhgan solai malaikku arasan,
Avan pala meyyanbu kondenadi

Anupallavi

Thaiyalar moovar undu dharaniyaar arindhapadi,
Tami enukkum idam thandhida vendumadi.

Charanam

1.Kazhal ninaindhal angam azhalai kodukkumadi,
Karai ulagam yennai kanda pol izhukkudadi,
Muruval mugam ninaindhal moham meerudhadi,
Aruvathu nazhigayum avan ninaive ninaivu.

2.Narumalar vaithume kathiru kkindren,
Nangai nee chendru nathanai kandu,
Oru murai vandhal yen uyir tharikkum yedru,
Uravai cholli udan azhaithu vadi.

English translation

Pallavi

Oh friend I have started loving the Lord,
Who is pretty and king of the garden and mountain.

Anupallavi

He has three women as known to the world,
And he has to give a place for me also

Charanam

1.When I think of his anklets , my body becomes weak,
And the earth is taking this and that of me,
When I think of his smiling face , passion ebbs,
And all the twenty four hours , I think about him only.

2.I am waiting for him with flowers on my head,
You being a girl please go and see my lord,
Tell him that if he comes once , I would be alive,
And tell him of my relation with him,
And bring him back along with you.