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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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Brāhmī

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. the Śakti or consort of Brahmā
  2. Sarasvatī, the consort of Brahmā
  3. one of the 8 manifestations of the Divine Mother (D. Saptaśati); the wife of Dhruva (Viş. Purāņa); (Brāhmī script): an ancient syllabary writing script from which developed the large Brāmhī family of scripts, which are used throughout Asia for a large number of languages, including the major regional languages of India; the medicinal creeping herb Bacopa monnieri; the herbaceous plant Centella asiatica.

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