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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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Devala

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. godlike; reminding of the gods; similar to the gods
  2. associated with divine beings; an attendant to an image of a deity
  3. an author of a part of the Ŗk Veda (IX); elder brother of Dhaumya the priest of the Pāndavas and the father of Suvarcalā the wife of Śvetaketu (M. Bh.); son of the muni Asita and the husband of Ekapaŕņā (M. Bh.); a ŗşi who was the son of Pratyūşa (Hv. Pur.); the father of Sańnatī (Hv. Pur.); a son of the muni Viśvāmitra (Hv. Pur.); a son of Kŗşţāśva and Dhīşaņā (Bg. Pur.).(fem: devalā): the daughter of Āhuka and sister of Dhŗti and Ugrasena (Bg. Pur.); a rāginī.

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