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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 expose the correspondence between textbooks and the colonial-racist discourse. This racist discourse 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.

Cārvāka

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By Jit Majumdar


  1. sweet tongued
  2. one with an attractive or charming speech
  3. a philosopher of ancient India whose personal identity and life is obscure, and who is the propagator of an ancient non-theistic, anti-idealistic, materialist and anti-theological philosophy named after him, which is the first instance in history of non-religious and non-theistic materialism, and which along with Sāńkhya, precedes all the philosophical schools of India.

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