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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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Ajiva

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Ajiva literally means ‘the non-living or inanimate’.

Jain metaphysics divides dravya or substance into two broad groups :

  • Astikāya - that which has a body and hence extended in space
  • Anastikāya - that which has no body

The astikāyas are again subdivided into two parts :

  • Jīva - animate
  • Ajīva - inanimate

Ajīva is further subdivided into four parts :

  • Dharma - the medium necessary for motion
  • Adharma - medium necessary for rest or immobility
  • Ākāśa - space
  • Pudgala - matter

References[edit]

  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

Contributors to this article

Krishna Maheshwari, Deval Sancheti

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