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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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I hail from Odisha, the land of temples and the great Lord Jagannath. A proud Hindu, I would love to educate people of its inclusiveness and vastness. I am a Software Engineer at a MNC in Chennai and love reading about Hinduism and it's contribution to the world. And i strongly believe that these should be avidly propagated the way it is being done at Hindupedia.
