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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
The Form of Goddess Parvathi which cures fever.
Vandeham Seethalam Devim, Rasabhastham Digambaram, Marjanee kalasopetham, Soorpalankrutha masthakam
My Salutations to Devi Sithala,
Who rides on a donkey,
Who wears the directions as dress,
Who holds in her hand the holy pot,this form to get rid of small pox.
Who holds in her hands a broomstick
And who holds in her hand a chaffer.
