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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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Inheritance

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

The inheritance of the property of a dead person is considered and decided from the religious standpoints. It is the sapiṇḍa relationship that clinches the matter of inheritance. The person who inherits the property is obliged to perform the śrāddha and other obsequial ceremonies regularly. For this he has to set apart a share of as much as 50% from the part of the inherited property. The dharmaśāstras contain exhaustive details about this subject. There are different schools of thought also.


References[edit]

  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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