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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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Translated by P. R. Ramachander
Dathathreya is the combined form of Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva and is a popular God of Karnataka and Maharashtra,
Jatadharam, Pandurangam, Soolahastham Krupanidhim, Sarvaroga haram devam, Dathathreyamaham bhaje.
My salutations to Dathathreya.,
Who is with matted hair,
Who is Lord Vishnu,
Who holds soola in his hand,
Who is store house of mercy,
And who is the panacea for all illness.
