Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children is now freely available.
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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.

User:Atul Gupta

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I grew up in Chandigarh, India. After completing my bachelors and masters studies in Engineering I came to the USA in 2000. In the US I went to graduate school at MIT Sloan school of management and have worked in the pharmaceutical industry for the last several years. As a Hindu, I grew up with the mantra of respecting all faiths. We used to go to Mosques, Gurudwaras and Church without ever thinking of one religion as better than another. However, my recent discovery of the negative literature published against Hindus has motivated me to learn more details of the Gita, Upanishads and the vedic culture to present them in a positive light to the world. I an well versed in Hindi, Punjabi and English. In addition I learnt Sanskrit in high school and I read in Sanskrit whenever available.

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