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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.

Agrahāyana

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. the first ‘ayana’ or equinox; the first movement of the sun
  2. the ninth month of the year in the India’s national civil calendar, beginning on 22nd November and ending on 21 December, covering the period of the Vernal Equinox and corresponding to the late Autumn season. In Lunar calendars the month begins on either the Full Moon or the New Moon of the same period, while in Solar calendars the month begins with the entry of the Sun into Scorpio, and is usually the eight month of the year.

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