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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.


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Talk:Rada Ivekovic

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By Renuka Joshi

Rada Iveković is a Croatian professor at the Department of Sociology Université de St. Etienne and program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris[1] as of January 2023. According to her profile, her areas of research interests include Areas of Comparative Philosophy (Indian and Western); Feminist theory, Feminist Philosophy; Political Philosophy, dealing with the areas of Traditional and contemporary Asian Philosophies, and in particular Indian Philosophy; Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Postmodern philosophy (a critical approach); History of (Indian) Philosophy; Orientalism in (Western) Philosophy; the Feminine in Philosophy; Different aspects of the constitution of the nation, the State, Citizenship etc.; the problem of nationalism, violence, war; European identity; democracy.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva in the context of BJP government.

In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women in these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."[2]

Publications related to India[edit]

  1. R.I. Rana budisticka misao [Early Buddhist Thought]. Sarajevo: V. Maslesa, 1977. 152 pages.
  2. R.I. and Cedomil Veljacic. Indijska i iranska etika [Indian and Iranian Ethics]. Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1980. 573 pages.
  3. R.I. , editor. Poceci indijske misli [The Beginnings of Indian Thought]. Beograd: BIGZ, 1st ed., NOLIT, 2nd ed., 1981, 1991. 475 pages.
  4. R.I. Pregled indijske filozofije [An Outline of Indian Philosophy]. Zagreb: Zavod za filozofiju, 1981. 653 pages.
  5. R.I. Druga Indija [Another India]. Zagreb: Skolska knjiga, 1982. 204 pages.
  6. R.I. "Juzna Azija: Indijska knjizevnost, tibetska knjizevnost, knjizevnosti jugoistocne Azije" [Literatures of India, Tibet and South-East Asia]. In Povijest svjetske..., [provide full title of the source where this article is published].
  7. R.I. Indija - Fragmenti osamdesetih. Filozofija i srodne discipline [India - Fragments of the Eighties. Philosophy and Neighbouring Fields]. Zagreb: Bibiloteka Filozofskih istrazivanja, 1989. 226 pages.
  8. R.I. Benares. Esej iz Indije [Benares. An Essay from India]. Zagreb: Graficki zavod Hrvatske, 1990. 202 pages.
  9. Ivekovic, Rada, and Julie Mostov, editors. From Gender to Nation. Institute for Central and Eastern Europe, Bologna & Longo Editore, Ravenna, 2002. Reprint, Zubaan, Delhi, 2004.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Rada Ivekovic News page accessed on May 10, 2023
  2. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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