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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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Sālihotra

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Sālihotra is said to be the son of the well-known sage Kapila. He was the author of a standard treatise on aśvaśāstra.[1] His āśrama or hermitage had an ageless tree and a pond of sweet water which could immediately quench all the hunger and thirst. They had been created by his tapas or power of austerity. Vyāsa, the author of the great epic Mahābhārata, is said to have lived in his āśrama once. The Pāṇḍavas, during their twelve-year exile, visited him and were his guests for a few days.


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  1. ↑ Aśvaśāstra means the science of horses.
  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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