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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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Trimurti

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Trimurti literally means ‘Trinity’.

Brahman, God the Absolute, creates the world, sustains it and withdraws it back into Himself.[1] As per the Parāṇa-s, Brahman is described as three deities:

  1. Brahmā responsible for creation
  2. Viṣṇu responsible for its sustenance
  3. Rudra or Śiva responsible for its destruction at the end of a cosmic cycle

These three deities correspond to the three guṇas (rajas, sattva and tamas) in the cosmic play of creation, sustenance and destruction. They are the Trimurtis. There are composite images in which all the three gods are represented, like Dattātreya.


References[edit]

  1. ↑ Brahmasutras 1.1.2
  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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Krishna Maheshwari, Deval Sancheti

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