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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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Mānuṣa-liṅga

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Mānuṣa-liṅga literally means ‘śivaliṅga made by human beings’.

Lord Śiva is worshiped in the form of a liṅga, an emblem with a rounded surface, cylindrical in shape. Liṅgas are classified into several varieties, of which the mānuṣa-linga is also one. It is defined as a liṅga prepared by the mānavas or human beings and worshiped by them. The iconographical works give all the details needed to prepare such a liṅga. The ritualistic processes for installing the liṅga in a temple are given by the Śaivāgamas which are religious texts dealing with the worship of Lord Śiva.


References[edit]

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

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