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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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Talk:Sāradā Maṭha

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Sāradā Maṭha (of Śṛṅgerī)

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Introduction If a scientific gadget can discover a hidden object for which it is designed, it is even more possible for holy persons with heightened consciousness—and hence endowed with special psychic powers—to discover places vibrating with holiness. Hence it is but natural for Saṅkara (A. D. 788-820), the great philosopher-mystic that he was, to detect with his uncanny power of superconsciousness, the inherent spiri¬tual power of the place now well-known as Śṛṅgerī. The story goes that Śaṅkara’s intui¬tion was confirmed by his seeing a cobra spreading its hood over a she-frog in labour pains, to give it protection from the fierce rays of the hot sun. This was the first place where he built his earliest of the four Pīṭhas or Maṭhas (monastic centres of learning and propagation of dharma), the other three being established later at Badari (the Jyotir Maṭha) in the north in Uttaranchal, Purī (the Govardhana Maṭha) in the east in Orissa and the Kālikā Maṭha in the west in Gujarat. This centre is also known as the Sāradā Pīṭha and Dakṣiṇa-āmnāya Piṭha.

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