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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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Bindusāra

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. the essence of the bindu; the essence of truth
  2. the subtle essence; born out of drops
  3. the second emperor of the Maurya Dynasty (320 BC — 272 BC), also known as Amitraghāta, who was the son and successor of Candragupta Maurya and the father and predecessor of Emperor Aśoka. His name was intended to mean “born out of blood drops” and he was so named because the stomach of his mother Durdharā (who was in death bed) had to cut open by Cāņakya, the preceptor and minister of Candragupta, to enable his safe birth.

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