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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 Swami Harshananda
Harijans literally means ‘people of God’
This word was coined by Mahātmā Gāndhī (A. D. 1869-1948) with regard to those people in the society who had been treated for centuries as untouchables. Even if the society disowned them, God did not, since they belonged to God. This seems to be the idea behind the word.
