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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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Caraka

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By Jit Majumdar


  1. wanderer; traveler
  2. a pilgrim; a student; a minstrel; an ascetic; a yogi
  3. one of the principal and seminal developers and contributors (b. ca 300 BC) of the ancient Āyurveda system of medicine and lifestyle. He is sometimes referred to as the Father of Anatomy, and the author of the famous and seminal Caraka Sańhitā which deals extensively with various branches of medicine such as general principles, nutrition, pathology, diagnostics, physiology, prognosis, therapeutics and pharmacy.

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