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:Vishal J Mehta

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Place of Birth
Mumbai
Currently Residing In
San Jose, CA
Language Proficiency
Gujarati, Hindi, English
Darsana
Pushti Marga
Upasana Parampara
Vaishnav - Srinathji
Subjects of Study
  • electrical and computer engineering
Interests
  • Philosophy
  • self help literature
  • nutrition and wellness
  • Reading
  • traveling
  • entrepreneurship
Hindupedia Areas of Focus
  • Editor – helping to clean up grammatical and stylistic errors
  • Other website related tasks
Other Socio Cultural Associations & Activities
  • Volunteer for BAYVP Vasihnav temple in Milpitas, CA
  • Member of local Bhakti Vriksh group (ISKCON - San Jose)
Education
  • MS (Electrical and Computer Engineering) from Univ of Wisconsin – Madison
  • B Tech from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University
Profession
  • working as ASIC Engineer at NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
  • building my own home-based business through Amway Global
  • planning to start a company someday to serve the teaching profession
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