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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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By Krishna Maheshwari
Alakā or Alakāpurī is the name of the city that Śiva had Viśvakarma built on behalf of Kubera after Rāvaṇa usurped Laṅkā from Kubera. Kuber received this city after he retired to Kailāsa and propitiated Lord Śiva through severe austerities.
