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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.

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:Patricia Dold

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Anirudha Patel


Patricia Dold is an Associate Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador as of August 2023[1]. According to her university profile, her research focuses on representations of females in Hindu Sanskrit texts, Hindu Goddess-centered narratives connected to the Kamakhya temple, and pilgrimage sites in Guwahati, Assam.

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.

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]

Articles[edit]

  1. Anyemedu, Akua, Eric Tenkorang, and Patricia Dold. "Ghanaian Women's Knowledge and Perceptions of Services Available to Victims of Intimate-Partner Violence." Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2017, pp. 1–25.
  2. Dold, Patricia. "Divine Domesticities in Hindu Theism: Introduction." Religious Studies and Theology: Special Issue on Hinduism, vol. 33, no. 1, 2014, pp. 1–6.

Book Chapters[edit]

  1. Dold, Patricia. "Re-imagining Religious History through Women's Song Performance at the Kamakhya Temple Site." Reimagining South Asian Religions: Essays in Honor of Professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt, edited by Michael Hawley and Pashaura Singh, Brill, 2013, pp. 133–154.
  2. Dold, Patricia. "Pilgrimage to Kamakhya through Text and Lived Religion: Some Forms of the Goddess at an Assamese Temple Site." Hinduism in Practice, edited by Hillary Peter Rodrigues, Routledge, 2011, pp. 46–61.


References[edit]

  1. ↑ Patricia Dold University Profile accessed August 22, 2023
  2. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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