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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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Atharva

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar and Himanshu Bhatt

  1. Place for oblations or worship by priests
  2. A sage born from Brahmā who acquired Agni from the sea and the husband of Śānti and Citti;[1] the name of the fourth Veda also known as Ātharvāńgirasa. Also spelled ‘atharvaņa’.
  3. The son of Atharva, Dadich Ṛṣi married Sarasvati Devi and hence was born Ṛṣi Sārasvata,[2] from whom the Sarasvatā Brahmans descends.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Atharvaveda
  2. ↑ Gods, Heroes and their Story Tellers: Intangible cultural heritage of South India By V. Hari Saravanan

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Deval Sancheti, Himanshu Bhatt

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