Devabandhu
From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia
By Jit Majumdar
- friend of the gods
- a king of the Yayāti Dynasty (Bg. Pur.); a son of yadava chief Śūra and brother of Vasudeva (Bg. Pur.); a ŗşi who the son of Śruta (K.S.S.).
Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children is now freely available.
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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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