Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children is now freely available.
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In this book, we examine the impact on Indian American children from school textbook narratives about Hinduism and ancient India, highlighting their alignment with colonial-racist discourse. This discourse causes psychological effects similar to those caused by racism: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a detachment from their cultural heritage. The book represents four years of rigorous research and academic peer review, underscoring Hindupedia's dedication to challenging the portrayal of Hindu Dharma in academia.

User:Krishna Maheshwari

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Krishna Maheshwari is the founder and CEO of Hindupedia, the online encyclopedia of Hindu Dharma. In addition to making an online-encyclopedia (www.hindupedia.com), Hindupedia is engaged in driving textbook reform – to remove Hinduphobic & Indophobic content from textbooks. To this end, the Hindupedia team was successful in getting one publisher banned for their Hinduphobic materials for 10 years in California and instrumental in getting another publisher to drop out of social studies altogether. Hindupedia has also developed an alternate framework for how textbooks should cover Hindu dharma that has been backed by Hindu organizations representing over 1 million Hindus in the US.

He has co-authored "Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children: A Francophone Postcolonial Analysis" and “Making Children Hinduphobic: A Critical Review of McGraw Hill’s World History textbooks” which is the first published work that does a formal critique of a textbooks coverage of Hindu dharma.

Krishna has co-founded several Hindu organizations in the past including Cornell Hindu Student Council (which is also the Cornell Hindu Chaplaincy), Chinmaya Mission Seattle, ISKCON Bhakti Vriksha programs in Boston, San Jose and Seattle, and Yoga Bharati Seattle. He is an invited speaker on Hindu topics at conferences and universities around the world.

He has a MBA from Harvard Business School, Masters & Bachelors from Cornell University in Computer Engineering and Computer Science.


Language Proficiency
Hindi, English
Darsana
Shuddhadwait Brahmvaad, Sankara-Adaita, Achintya Bheda Abheda
Upasana Parampara
Vaishnav
Subjects of Study
  • Hindu Philosophy (spanning multiple darsana's)
  • Ancient Hindu History
  • Management
Hindupedia Areas of Focus
  • Founder & CEO of Hindupedia -- consequently, involved in multiple areas
    • Fundraising
    • Site management
    • Team management / recruiting
    • Limited content development across multiple areas of the site
    • Content editing (style, grammar, spelling)
    • Public presentations on various topics and venues ranging from IMRC, HMEC, WAVES, and various Universities.
Other Socio Cultural Associations & Activities
  • Debates involving revision of California 6th Grade Textbooks to present a positive portrayal of Hinduism instead of the negative and inaccurate view that was in place.
  • Involved with Hindu Students Council (national level)
  • Co-founder of Yoga Bharati (Seattle Chapter)
  • Co-founder of Chinmaya Mission (Seattle)
  • ISKCON Bhakti Vriksha Group Leader (Seattle, San Jose, Boston)
  • Balagokulam (Seattle) teacher
  • Co-founder Hindu Students Council (Cornell University Chapter) (also known as Cornell University Hindu Chaplaincy)
  • Invited speaker for Cornell University Religious Works (as a representative of the Hindu Chaplaincy / Hindus on campus)
  • President - Asha for Education Cornell Chapter (2001-2002)
  • President - Bhakti (Cornell) (2001-2002)
Presentations
  • Keynote at Hindu Mandirs' Executives Conference, Houston, 2010 [Slides & Video]
Other Interests & Activities
  • Strategy, Product Management and Engineering Management
Academic Publications
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Singh, Kundan, and Krishna Maheshwari. Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children. Springer, 2024. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-57627-0.

Other Publications
Making Children Hinduphobic Book Cover.jpg

Singh, Kundan, and Krishna Maheshwari. Making Children Hinduphobic: A Critical Review of McGraw Hill’s World History Textbooks. Infinity Foundation India, 2018. https://www.amazon.com/Making-Children-Hinduphobic-Critical-textbooks-ebook/dp/B07G4MW869.








Formal education
  • MBA from Harvard Business School
  • Masters of Engineering from Cornell University
  • BS in Computer Science from Cornell University
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