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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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Pavitrāropaṇa-vrata

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By Swami Harshananda

Pavitrāropaṇa-vrata means investing the image of a deity with the pavitra or the sacred cord. This ritual is supposed to set right all the defects and mistakes committed in all the pujās performed during that year. The putting on of the pavitra in the case of several gods is done on different days. It may be made of gold, silver, copper, silk or even kuśa or cotton thread. It must have knots, the maximum number being 100 and a minimum of 8.


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

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