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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.

Devayānī

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. vehicle or chariot of the gods (fem.)
  2. one invested with godly locomotion; godly affluence
  3. the daughter of Śukracārya, the preceptor of the daityas & danavas, and Ūrjasvatī, the queen of Yayāti and the mother of Yadu and Turvasu (Hv. Pur.).

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