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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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Devavrata

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. dedicated to the gods; committed to the gods
  2. the birth name of Bhīşma, the son of King Śāntanu and the grandfather of the Kauravas and Pāndavas and the patriarch of the Kuru family, who came to be known as “Bhīşma”, (the terrifying), after he took the extreme and formidable vow of renouncing the Kuru throne as the successor of Śāntanu and of lifelong celibacy so that only the sons of Satyavatī would have claim to the throne without any possible challenge (M. Bh.).

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