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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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drṣad and upala
Vedic sacrifices are an ancient insti-tution. Out of the several materials used in the sacrifices for oblation into the duly consecrated fire, purodāśas or cakes made by baking pounded grains is also one. The two mill-stones used for pounding the grains are called dṛṣad and upala. Dṛṣad
is the lower stone, flat in shape whereas Upala is the upper cylindrical stone.
