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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.

Ānandamārga

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. the path of bliss; the tradition of bliss.
  2. a modern socio-cultural and spiritual movement and order based on the philosophies of Tantra and Yoga, and aiming at self-actualization and social service, comprising of both renunciate and non-renunciate members, founded by the Bengali philosopher, activist, author, poet, composer and linguist Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, also known as Śrī Ānandamūrti, in 1955 CE, in the state of Bihar.

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