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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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Ardhanārīśvara

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. the Divine or Godhead who is half-female
  2. the anthromorphic form where the right half is male and the left half is female, representing a form of Śiva where he is conjoined with Śakti as his left half, signifying the essential unity of male and female principles and of polar opposites that are in fact complimentary for existence to be possible, and also signifying that every female is nature’s primal expression and complete manifestation while every male is an evolute of the female and half-female.

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