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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:Sandy Bharat

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Disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda. Trustee, Tabora League for Children, charity status pending, set up to help vulnerable and orphaned children and their carers in Tabora, Tanzania. Hindu chapter contributor: The Blackwell Companion to Jesus, ed. Delbert Burkett (Blackwells 2011). Author: Christ Across the Ganges: Hindu Responses to Jesus (O Books 2007). Co-author with late husband Jael: A Global Guide to Interfaith: Reflections from around the world (O Books 2007); Touched by Truth: A Contemporary Hindu Anthology (Sessions 2006); Mapping the Cosmos: An Introduction to God (Sessions 2006). Former Director (1994-2004), International Interfaith Centre. Copy editor, Encyclopedia of Hinduism project, South Carolina, July 1997. I have edited many texts and papers for scholars / people of faith who do not have English as a first language. Editor, IARF Congress Proceedings, 1996. Former trustee World Congress of Faiths. Contributor and book reviewer to many publications.

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