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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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Budha

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. intelligent; wise
  2. a son of Soma, a descendant of the ŗşi Atri, the husband of Ila, the father of Purūravās, and the regent of the planet Mercury (M. Bh.), the god of trade and commerce and the patron of merchants and entrepreneurs. He represents intelligence, intellect, communication, analysis, the senses (especially the skin), science, mathematics, business, education, research, the written word, and journeys and adventures of all types. He rules over the lunar mansions of Aśleşā, Jyeşţhā, and Revatī.

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