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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.

Candra

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. bright; luminous; radiant
  2. handsome; lovely; fair; comely
  3. the moon; a pearl; silver; the number one
  4. the moon personified as the deity Candra created from the cosmic ocean and the presiding deity of the drink soma (Sp. Br.); a king of the Solar dynasty who was the son of Viśvagandhi and father of Yuvanāśva (M. Bh.); the moon god as the son of Atri and Anusuyā whose wives were the 27 daughters of the prajāpati Dakşa, and who is the presiding deity for herbs and medicines (BrV. Pur.); the medicinal plant Bryonopsis laciniosa, popularly known as the lollipop plant or shivlingi.

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