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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.


This book is the result of four years of rigorous research and academic peer-review, reflecting our ongoing commitment at Hindupedia to challenge the representation of Hindu Dharma within academia.

Candrāvalī

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. moon-like in quality
  2. a prominent gopī featuring in the tales of the pastimes of Kŗşņa with the cowherd girls or milkmaids, the daughter of Candrabhānu and the wife of Govardhan Malla, a cousin and a close friend of Rādhā, who like her passionately loved Kŗşņa, and also her main competitor for the attention of Kŗşņa; a drama centered around the same character by Bhāratendu Harīścandra (1850 – 1885 CE).

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