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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.

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I attend Livingston High School as a tenth grader, and I'm enrolled in many honors classes this year including English Honors. In addition to English, I also take Journalism, which gives me the opportunity to write for my school newspaper. One of my best experiences with writing, however, was when I attended the John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Summer Program (CTY). I took a writing course where I spent three weeks in an intensive study program focused solely on composition skills. In addition to writing, I also have a basic knowledge of HTML as well as CSS, which gives me the ability to edit web pages directly as opposed to just the content (if needed).

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