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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.

Aarthi Sri Janak Dhulari ki

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

Translated by P. R. Ramachander

Sithaji, Raghu var pyari ki

Sitha the loved one of Lord Rama

Jagat Janani Jag j ki vistharini,
Nithya sathy saketh viharini,
Magna dhayamayi, dheenodharaini,
Mayya Bhakthan hithakaari kee (Sithaji)

Oh mother of universe, Who looks after the world,
Who is the perennial truth and one who wandered in Ayodhya,
Who is immersed in mercy and one who lifts up those who suffer,
Oh mother please do good to your devotees,

Sathi sironmani, pathi hith karini,
Pathi seva hith van-van charini,
Pathi hith pathi viyog sweekarini,
THyag dharmmorathi dhariki (Sithaji)

Og greatest among virtuous ladies, who obeys her husband,
Who went from forest to forest for the sake of her husband,
Who parted from her husband for the good of her husband,
And took the Form of personification of sacrifice and Dharma

Vimal keerthi sab lokan CChadai,
Naam leth paavan mathi aayi,
Sumirath katath kasht dukhvaayi,
Saranagath jan bhay haari ki ( Sitaji)

All the people offered her pure fame,
And taking her name they got a purified mind,
And she with a smile suffered all her sorrows,
And removed the fears of those who surrendered to her.