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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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Bali

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. that which causes or creates strength; that which brings power
  2. sacrifice; offering; oblation; powerful
  3. an mighty and noble emperor of the daitya lineage, renown for his charitable nature, also known as Mahābali or Māveli, in whose honor the festival of Onām had originated in the state of Kerala. He was the great-grandson of Hiraņyakaśipu, the grandson of Prahlāda, and the son of Virocana, the husband of Sudeşņā (not to be confused with the wife of the king Virāţa of the M. Bh.) and the father of the 5 adopted sons: Ańga, Vańga, Kalińga, Sumha and Pundra after whom the five eastern ancient kingdoms and lineages derived their names. He was tricked by Vişņu in his Vāmana or dwarf incarnation into surrendering his empire and sovereignty on earth and moving to the netherworlds (M. Bh.); the son of Kŗtavarmā who was the husband of Kŗşņa’s and Rukmiņī’s daughter Cārumatī (Bhāg. Pur.); the monkey king of Aņva who was the son of Sutapas and the husband of Sudeşņā (Bhāg. Pur.); a hermit who was the incarnation of Śiva (Śiva. Pur.).

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