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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:Lisa Knight

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Anirudha Patel

Lisa Knight is a Professor of Religion, Asian Studies, and Anthropology and Chair of Asian Studies at Furman University[1] as of July 2023. According to her University Profile, her area of research interest includes South Asia, anthropology, religion, gender, Bauls, exiled secular Bangladeshis, trauma, activism, and feminist ethnography.

She has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, or the Indian Government as of July 2023

In 2021 she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."[2]

Publications related to India[edit]

  • Knight, Lisa. Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh. Oxford UP, 2014.
  • Knight, Lisa. "Women and the Baul Tradition." Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. E. J. Brill Publishers, 2011.
  • Knight, Lisa. "Bauls in Conversation: Cultivating Oppositional Ideology." International Journal of Hindu Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 2010, pp. 71-120.
  • Knight, Lisa. "Renouncing Expectations: Single Baul Women and the Value of Being a Wife." Women's Renunciation in South Asia: Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers, edited by Meena Khandelwal, Sondra L. Hausner, and Ann Grodzins Gold, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 191-222.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Lisa Knight University Profileaccessed July 15, 2023
  2. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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