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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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Brahmaputra

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. son of Brahmā
  2. one of the perennial great rivers of north India and one of the longest rivers of the world. It originates in the Tibetan plateau, where it is called the Yārlung Zāngbo (or Tsang-Po), enters India via the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, known as the Siāng and Dihāng, enters the state of Assam as the Brahmaputra, and takes on the name Jomunā in Bangladesh, where it merges with the Gańgā and bifurcates into the rivers Padmā and Meghnā, and empties into the Bay of Bengal.

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