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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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By Swami Harshananda
Musala literally means ‘wooden club’.
In Vedic sacrifices, very often, grains will have to be pounded or dehusked. For this, a musala is used. It is a wooden pestle made of khadira wood[1] with a metallic head. Some deities like Balarāma[2] are shown with the musala in one of the hands, as a weapon.
