By Jit Majumdar
- supporting or carrying the earth
- a tortoise; a king
- the cosmic serpent Śeşa; the father of Śaśidhara (Rāj. Tr.); one of the 10 elephants that support the earth (M. Bh.); another name for Vişņu in his Varāha (wild boar) incarnation.
Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children is now freely available.
| 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. |