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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.

Citra

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. beautiful; wonderful
  2. picture; portrait; anything that strikes the eye; anything that is a pleasant sight; ornament; sky; illusion
  3. a son of Dhŗtarāşţra (M. Bh.); an elephant who was the playmate of Kārtikeya, or Subramaņya (M. Bh.); a hero of the Cedi kingdom who fought for the Pāndavas (M. Bh.); a Gāndharva who was the friend of Arjuna (M. Bh.) (fem: citrā): an apsarā (M. Bh.); a daughter of the Yadava prince Gada; the 14th rāśi, or lunar masion, which corresponds to the Star Spica, or Alpha Virginis; the second daughter of Vasudeva and Rohiņī and the sister of Subhadrā and Balarāma (Hv. Pur.).

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