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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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By Swami Harshananda
Sandhyāvandana literally menas ‘obeisance to God during dawn and dusk’.
The word sandhyā refers to that time when night passes into day and day passes into night. They are dawn and dusk respectively. The ritual of offering one’s obeisance to God during these periods is known as sandhyāvandana.
