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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.

Aśvasena

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. army of horses; commander of an army of horses
  2. the nāga chief who was the son of Takşaka, who became an enemy of the Pāndava side, specially of Arjuna and Kŗşņa, because of their encroachment and assault on the Khandava forest by burning it and rendering its inhabitants – which included him and his clan – homeless, in the process killing his mother, who was trying to escape with him, and to avenge which he tried to help Karņa kill arjuna by hiding among his weapons. His help was refused by Karņa when he spotted him, and he was sent away, when he was finally spotted by Arjuna and killed. (M. Bh.).

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