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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:Rahul Mukherjee

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Renuka Joshi


Rahul Mukherjee is a Dick Wolf Assistant Professor of Television and New Media Studie at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia as of May 2023[1]. According to his profile, his academic interests include imaginings about the media’s role with(in) alternative futures for politics and technology.

As per his bio, he 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 the context of B.J.P. 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."[2]

Publications related to India[edit]

Journal Articles[edit]

  1. Mukherjee, Rahul. "Jio Sparks Disruption 2.0: Infrastructural Imaginaries and Platform Ecosystems in ‘Digital India’." Media, Culture & Society, special issue on Media Infrastructures: from Pipes to Platforms, edited by Jean Christophe Plantin and Aswin Punathambekar, vol. 41, no. 2, Jan. 2019, pp. 175-195.
  2. Mukherjee, Rahul. "Travels, Songs, and Displacements: Movement in Translocal Documentaries Interrogating Development." Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Special Issue on Indian Documentary Studies: Contours of a Field, edited by Bhaskar Sarkar and Nicole Wolf, vol. 3, no. 1, Jan. 2012, pp. 53-68.
  3. Mukherjee, Rahul. "Toxic Lunch in Bhopal and Chemical Publics." Science, Technology & Human Values, vol. 41, no. 5, Sept. 2016, pp. 849-875.
  4. Mukherjee, Rahul. "What an Idea Sirji!: Intersections of Neoliberal Subjectivities and Development Discourses in Idea Cellular Ads." Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Special Issue on Neoliberalism and South Asian Media and Cultural Politics, vol. 4, no. 1, Apr. 2013, pp. 95-115.

Book Chapters:[edit]

  1. Mukherjee, Rahul. "Imagining Cellular India: The Popular, the Infrastructural, and the National." Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia, edited by Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan, University of Michigan Press, June 2019, pp. 76-95.
  2. Mukherjee, Rahul, and Abhigyan Singh. "MicroSD-ing ‘Mewati Videos’: Circulation and Regulation of a Subaltern-Popular Media Culture." Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbral of the Global, edited by Joshua Neves and Bhaskar Sarkar, Duke University Press, pp. 133-157.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Rahul Mukherjee University page accessed on 15/5/2023
  2. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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