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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 expose the correspondence between textbooks and the colonial-racist discourse. This racist discourse 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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Talk:Mukul Kesavan

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Renuka Joshi


Mukul Kesavan is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, Jamia Millia Islamia as of May 2023[1]. According to his university profile, his areas of Interest include History, Politics, and cricket[2].

As per his bio, he has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India or the Indian Government in the context of BJP government.

In 2021, he along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar 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 in 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."[3]

Publications related to India[edit]

Books[edit]

  1. Kesavan, Mukul. Men in White: A Book of Cricket, Penguin India, Delhi 2007 Secular Common Sense Penguin India, Delhi 2001 (An essayon communal conflict in late 20th Century India.)
  2. Kesavan, Mukul. Slowly Down the Ganga (with Sanjeev Saith), Roli, New Delhi 1989. Co-Editor, Civil Lines, Volumes 1 to 6. Civil Lines is a literary journal each volume of which is published as a book.

Essays[edit]

  1. Kesavan, Mukul. An Undergraduate History of Hindi Cinema’ in Tomorrow’s India, edited by B.G. Verghese. New Delhi: Penguin 2006‘Invoking a Majority: The Congress & the Muslims of the United Provinces, 1945-47’ in Self-Images, Identity and Nationality, edited by P.C. Chatterji

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Mukul Kesavan JMI university page accessed on 15/5/2023
  2. ↑ Mukul Kesavan page on Guardian website accessed on 15/5/2023
  3. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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