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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.

Devavata

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. godlike; godly
  2. another name for the 12th Manu Rudrasāvarņī; another name for the Yādava chief Akrūra (Hv. Pur.) (fem: devavatī): wife of the rākşasa Sukeśa and the mother of rākşasa chiefs Mālyavān, Sumāli and Māli (V. Rām.); the daughterof the daitya Mandarmāli (V. Rām.).