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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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Rāmatirtha

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By Swami Harshananda

The Vedāntasāra of Sadānanda (17th century A. D.) is a well-known primary text-book of Advaita Vedānta, popular among the students of Vedānta. Out of the three Sanskrit commentaries on it available now in print, the Vidvanmanorañjani of Rāmatīrtha is also the one. Nothing is known about him except that he was a disciple of Svāmi Kṛṣṇatīrtha. He might have lived during the 17th century A. D. His commentary is simple and lucid.


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

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