Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children is now published after academic peer-review and available through open access.
In this book, we analyze the psycho-social consequences that Indian American children face after they are exposed to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. We show that there is an intimate connection―an almost exact correspondence―between James Mill’s ( a prominent politician in Britain and head of the British East India Company) colonial-racist discourse and the current school-textbook discourse. Consequently, this archaic and racist discourse, camouflaged under the cover of political correctness, produces in the Indian American children the same psychological impact as racism is known to produce: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon similar to racelessness where the children dissociate from the tradition and culture of their ancestors
This book is an outcome of 4 years of rigorous research as a part of our ongoing commitment at Hindupedia to challenge the representation of Hindu Dharma within Academia.
| Not through the divine visions but through the level of your detachment to worldly matters. When we move towards Sun our shadow is behind, when we move away from Sun the shadow is right in front. So when we are moving towards God our problems are behind us and do not scare us. Moving towards God is chanting his Nama. Name and God is one and the same. | ||
—Sri Sri Muralidhara Swami | ||
