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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.

Droņahantā

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. the slayer of Drona
  2. another name for Dhŗşţadyumna, who is said to have been begotten by Drupada with an intense desire to take revenge on Droņa, who had asked his students (the Kaurava and Pāndava princes) to defeat and humiliate Drupad in war and bring the king to him imprisoned, as the gurudakşņā, or the “fee” or recompensation for their education.

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