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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.

Citrakūţa

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. picturesque or beautiful mountain peak; hill of wonders
  2. a hilly region, which includes a modern town of the same name, belonging to the northern Vindhya Range of mountains, spread over the Chitrakut and Satna distrcicts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh respectively, and of religious, cultural, and archeological importance and mentioned many times in several ancient texts, where Rāma along with his brother and wife is said to have spent about 11 years out of their 14 years of exile (V. Rām.).

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