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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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Anu Moorthy is a Librarian. She loves to read and to play with technology. She loves to travel and plays the veena, and enjoys music! She is a lifelong volunteer: she teaches computer classes for the seniors, helps at the school library, and volunteers as a “skill-based volunteer” for a nonprofit organization when she is not working as a Librarian!
