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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.


This book is the result of four years of rigorous research and academic peer-review, reflecting our ongoing commitment at Hindupedia to challenge the representation of Hindu Dharma within academia.

Devi ki Aarthi

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

Translated by P. R. Ramachander

Aarthi keejai, Saila suthaa ko,

Please do Aarthi to the daughter of the mountain,

Jagadambaki, Aarthi keejao,
Sneha sudha, such sundar leejai,
Jinke naam leth durg bhojai,
Iysi vah maathaa Vasudhaa ki

Do worship of the mother of universe
And get from her the nectar of love and beautiful truth,
Taking whose name Say “Durga”,
Which is the name of mother Vasudha

Papa vinasini, kali mal haarini,
Dhayaa mayi, bhava sagar tharini,
Shankh dharini, SAila viharini,
Budhi rasiGanapathi Mathaa ki

She is destroyer of sins, remover of dirt from the mind,
The merciful mother, The one who makes you cross ocean of Karma,
The one who holds the conch, one who wanders on mountains,
And she is the mother of intelligent Ganeshaha.

Simh vahini, mathu Bhavani,
Gaurav gaan karai Jagakerani
Shivke hruday man ka rani,
Karen Aarthi mil jul jAaki

She rides on a lion, she is mother Bhavani,
She, the queen of the world sings the song of respectability,
She is rge queen of the heart of Lord shivs,
And we would all join together and do Aarthi to her.