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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 expose the correspondence between textbooks and the colonial-racist discourse. This racist discourse 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.

Avinābhāva

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By Jit Majumdar


  1. the feeling or experience of non-separation; the experience or state of one not being without the other
  2. the united, non-dual state of Śiva and Śakti when the two principles are conjoined and acquire and single non-dual entity, blending and merging into each other and experiencing oneself in each other, yet simultaneously retain their own identities as the knower and knowledge, the consciousness and the conscious, the Power and the Powerful, the Bliss and the Blissful, and the absolute Truth and also the witness of that Truth. It is the primordial phenomena of creation, or the first throb, which leads to the manifold manifestation of the universe (T. Śāstra).

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