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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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Dharmavyādha

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Once a brāhmaṇa who was an expert in archery accidentally killed a sage. Sage cursed him to be born as a butcher. He was reborn as the butcher Dharmavyādha in the city of Mithilā. He was deeply devoted to his parents and served them with great fervor.

Kauśika, a brāhmaṇa mendicant, was directed by a devout house-wife to learn the secrets of dharma from Dharmavyādha of Mithilā. When Kauśika approached Dharmavyādha, he was pleased to teach him the utility and the significance of performing one’s duties in life. One should execute one's duty even if it appears unpleasant to oneself or others. Such Karmayoga leads to purification of one’s mind and ultimately, to spiritual enlightenment. His teachings which appear in the Vanaparva of the Mahābhārata[1] deserve the name ‘Vyādhagītā’.


References[edit]

  1. ↑ Mahābhārata chapters 207-216
  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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Krishna Maheshwari, Deval Sancheti

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