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Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children is now published after academic peer-review and available through open access.

In this book, we analyze the psycho-social consequences that Indian American children face after they are exposed to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. We show that there is an intimate connection―an almost exact correspondence―between James Mill’s ( a prominent politician in Britain and head of the British East India Company) colonial-racist discourse and the current school-textbook discourse. Consequently, this archaic and racist discourse, camouflaged under the cover of political correctness, produces in the Indian American children the same psychological impact as racism is known to produce: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon similar to racelessness where the children dissociate from the tradition and culture of their ancestors

This book is an outcome of 4 years of rigorous research as a part of our ongoing commitment at Hindupedia to challenge the representation of Hindu Dharma within Academia.

Bodhisattva

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. the essence of knowledge or enlightenment
  2. the essence of the enlightened or awakened one
  3. one whose essence is enlightenment; one who is embodied wisdom
  4. in Buddhism, a class of enlightened beings, who, motivated by great compassion, has generated a spontaneous wish to attain the state of a Buddha for the benefit of all living beings and to guide other humans towards enlightenment and liberation. A bodhisattva is anyone who is motivated by compassion and seeks enlightenment not only for him/herself but also for everyone.

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