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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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Madhyama literally means the middle one.
In the four forms of Vak/sound, Madhyama is the second level, which means subtle. The first is vaikhari, which is the external sound. Madhyama is said to be anahata or the subtle sound, which is heard in the subtle planes and not produced. This is also referred to as the cosmic hiss.
