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We examine the impact of the current colonial-racist discourse around Hindu Dharma on Indians across the world and prove that this discourse causes psychological effects similar to those caused by racism: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a detachment from our cultural heritage.

Dasyu

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. enemy
  2. rogue; outcaste; robber
  3. the tribal people (mostly forest dwellers) of ancient India who were looked upon as enemies and wicked beings and irreligious or impious beings by the Āryan or Vedic society, and which therefore came to be used as a derogatory term.

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