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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.


This book is the result of four years of rigorous research and academic peer-review, reflecting our ongoing commitment at Hindupedia to challenge the representation of Hindu Dharma within academia.

Talk:Airavata

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

Airāvata (‘born out of water or ocean’) When the devas (gods) and asuras (demons) started churning the kṣīra- samudra (milk-ocean) with a view to getting amrta (ambrosia), several divine and mysterious objects emerged, out of which the majestic Airāvata (also called Airāvaṇa) the four-tusked white elephant was one. Indra, the chief of the devas, chose it as his mount. According to another version, Airāvata was the offspring of the elephant Bhadramanasa which Indra claimed as his mount. Indra, who is also the presiding god over rain, sends down rain while sitting on this elephant. It is to this elephant that Indra threw the sacred garland given by the sage Durvāsas, out of arrogance and pride. The animal in turn threw it under its feet and trampled it thus enraging the irascible sage who cursed Indra to lose his sovereignty. Airavata.jpg Airāvata is also the name of the elephant supporting the earth on its eastern quarter and is one of the eight elephants known as aṣṭadig-gajas, believed to be supporting the quarters. It is sometimes described as the king of elephants and a prototype of all the elephants (vide Visnupurāna 1.22). ‘Airāvata’ is also the name of a serpent king who is said to have protected Aśvasena, the son of Takṣaka (another serpent king). See also INDRA.

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