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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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Nairātmyavāda

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Nairātmyavāda literally means ‘school of philosophy that does not admit of ātman or a permanent soul’.

Certain schools of philosophy like the Cārvāka and the Bauddha, do not subscribe to the view that there is a permanent reality called ātman, behind our body-mind complex, that survives death. The arguments and philosophy of such schools are designated as ‘Nairātmyavāda'.


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  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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