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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.


This book is the result of four years of rigorous research and academic peer-review, reflecting our ongoing commitment at Hindupedia to challenge the representation of Hindu Dharma within academia.

Morning prayer to Pandu Ranga

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

Translated by P. R. Ramachander

This form of Vishnu is very popular in Maharshtra and several savants prayed him ecstasically.

Maha yoga peede, thade Bhima nadhya,
Varam pundarikaya thadum munendrai,
Samagathya nishtanda kandam,
Para Brahma lingam bhaje pand rangam.

I sing the praises of Pandu ranga,
Who resides in the great seat of yoga,
In the shore of River Bhima,
The Lotus eyed one who gives boons to sages,
Who attracts devotees to himself,
And who is the personification of truth.

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