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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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Swami Kumara

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Very little information is available about Swami Kumara, the commentator of Caraka Samhita. He belonged to the later period than Bhattara Haricandra, as he quotes Bhattara Haricandra's name frequently in his commentary on Caraka Samhita, known as Panjika. Panjika is available upto the fifth chapter of Sutra-sthāna. The manuscript belongs to the Madras Government library.

References[edit]

  • The Caraka Samhita was published by Shree Gulabkunverba Ayurvedic Society, Jamnagar, India

 

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Deval Sancheti, Shashi Maheshwari, Krishna Maheshwari

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