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We examine the impact of the current colonial-racist discourse around Hindu Dharma on Indians across the world and prove that this discourse causes psychological effects similar to those caused by racism: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a detachment from our cultural heritage.

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From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. pertaining to the mind or consciousness
  2. the individual soul, or one’s essential self;
  3. a holy monument or edifice; usually containing the relics of saints or masters, and which are the objects of devotion for the followers of those saints and masters, usually in Buddhism and Jainism.

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