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Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children is now published after academic peer-review and available through open access.

In this book, we analyze the psycho-social consequences that Indian American children face after they are exposed to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. We show that there is an intimate connection―an almost exact correspondence―between James Mill’s ( a prominent politician in Britain and head of the British East India Company) colonial-racist discourse and the current school-textbook discourse. Consequently, this archaic and racist discourse, camouflaged under the cover of political correctness, produces in the Indian American children the same psychological impact as racism is known to produce: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon similar to racelessness where the children dissociate from the tradition and culture of their ancestors

This book is an outcome of 4 years of rigorous research as a part of our ongoing commitment at Hindupedia to challenge the representation of Hindu Dharma within Academia.

Caitanya

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By Jit Majumdar


  1. consciousness; awareness
  2. intelligence; mindfulness; spirituality
  3. a great sahajiyā saint, mystic and spiritual leader and social reformer of Bengal, (CE 1486 – 1534), born as Viśvambhar Miśra, and also known as Nimai, Gourāńga, Gouracandra and Mahāprabhu, whose six primary successors are regarded as the founder of the Gauŕīya (Bengali) school of Vaişņavism and who is regarded as the propagator of the Acintya-bhedābheda (inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference) school of philosophy.

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