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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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Caturańga

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. four limbed; with four parts or organs
  2. a king of the Añga dynasty who was the son of Hemapāda and the father of Pŗthulākşa (A. Pur.); an army consisting of four sections, namely the infantry, the cavalry, the elephant brigade, and the charioteers; an ancient dice game of India based on the formations and tactical movements of the previously mentioned four-sectioned army, which is the common ancestor of games like chess, and other similar games of the Far East like Shogi, Xiangqi and Janggi.

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