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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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Brāhman

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. pertaining to Brahman; one who knows Brahman; one who embodies the qualities of Brahmanhood; one who expands in consciousness
  2. in Vedic and Brahminical Hinduism, the first, and the foremost in status and privileges, among the four varņas (see: varņa), who were created from the mouth of the Cosmic Being or Puruşa, and were given (according to the scriptures they had composed) the responsibility (and the right) of lawmaking, scripture writing and interpreting, developing philosophy and moral codes, educating the society, preaching and the performing of rituals and sacrifices as prescribed in the authoritative texts, the Vedas (Ŗg Veda). They occupied the foremost position in the Varņa system, and in general performed the role of the leaders, judges, arbitrators, intellectuals, opinionj makers, guardians, clergy, priests, and moral polices (fem: brāmanī).

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