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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.

Tattvavaiśāradī

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda


The Yogasutras of Patañjali (200 B. C.) is the basic work of Yoga philosophy. This philosophy is one of the six systems of philosophy. This has a commentary called Vyāsabhāsya by one Vyāsa (A. D. 600). On this Vācaspati (A. D. 850) has written a learned gloss known as Tattvavaiśāradī. This is considered a standard elucidation of not only the Vyāsabhāsya but even of Yoga philosophy also.


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  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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