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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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By Jit Majumdar
an anglicised mispronunciation of “Verul”, an archaeological heritage site near the present city of Aurangabad in the state of Maharashtra, renowned for its monumental rock-cut cave temples and monasteries, numbering 34, built by the rulers of the Rāşţrakuta dynasty, and constructed in several phases between the 5th and 10th centuries CE, consisting of 17 Hindu, 12 Buddhist and 5 Jain caves.
