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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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Brāhmanaspati

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By Jit Majumdar


  1. the lord/ leader of the brāhmaņa(s);
  2. lord of rituals, sacrifices, prayer and devotion;
  3. a deity of the Vedas, who is the personification of piety, religion, wisdom and eloquence, and the chief 'offerer of prayers and sacrifices to the gods', with whom he intercedes on behalf of humankind (Ŗg Veda); in post-Vedic Hinduism, he is identified with Bŗhaspati, the regent of the planet Jupiter and the preceptor and priest of the gods.

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