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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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Ancient hindu poetry was composed in metrical form. Poetry has greater beauty and power in conveying the idea. Ramayana was the first poetical work, hence it is called AdiKavya. Chandas helped in the birth of various metrical forms used in the hyms to various deities, in the Puranas and other poetical works.
