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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.

Dhŗşţadyumna

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. glorified by boldness; outstanding in boldness
  2. the son of King Drupada of Pāñcāla, the brother of Kŗşņā or Draupadī, and the brother-in-law of the Pāndavas, who acted as the commander-in-chief of the Pāndava side in the Bharata War, and was responsible for unethically and illegally killing Droņācārya in an unarmed state, and was killed in turn in the same way, in his sleep, by Droņa’s son Aśvatthāmā, after the war was over.

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