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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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Siddhartha Gautama

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Siddhartha Gautama or Gautama Buddha was the 24th Tathagata of Buddhism (Bauddh Dharma).

He was known by various titles, including Buddha, Shākyamuni, Shākyasimha, Thera, Bhadanta (or, in its Prakrit forms Bhayanta or Bhante and Bho.) He was known after his parinirvana as Arihant, Bhagavā/Bhagavat/Bhagwān, Mahāvira[1], Jina/Jinendra, Sāstr, Sugata, Muniraj, and most popularly in scriptures as Tathāgata.

Categories: Mendicants

  1. ↑ Gatha of Theri Sundari Thig. verses 335-336, P. 22, Buddhist Images of Human Perfection: The Arahant of the Sutta Piṭaka By Katz Nathan

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