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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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Ayodhyā

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. not to be fought against
  2. not a fighter
  3. the capital city of the ancient kingdom of Kośala, in modern day Uttar Pradesh, on the banks of the River Sarayu, which is one of the holy cities and pilgrimage centres of the Hindus, on account of it being the birth place of Rāma and the capital city of his rule, which is praised in the ancient texts for its prosperity, beauty, religious and cultural momuments, and for being an impornat ancient trading centre
    • Toponyms for the sacred city include Awadh, Fyzabad, Oudh, Saketa, and Vinita

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