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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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List of Content

  1. 1. Brief introduction of nyAya;
  2. 1.1 Definition of the term nyAya;
  3. 1.1.1 Introduction to nyAya prayOga;

  1. 2. Constituents of nyAya darshanam;
  2. 2.1 Brief introduction to the sixteen elements of nyAya darshanam;
  3. 2.2 Epistemology or the pramANa vimarsha;
  4. 2.2.1 Perceptual cognition or pratyaksha pramAna;
  5. 2.2.2 Inferential cognition or anumAna pramAna;
  6. 2.2.3 Analogical cognition or upamAna pramAna;
  7. 2.2.4 Verbal cognition or shabda pramAna;
  8. 2.3 Introduction to fallacious grounds or hEtvAbhAsa;
  9. 2.3.1 Usage of hEtvAbhAsa in argumentation;
  10. 2.3 Logic in nyAya;
  11. 2.3.1 Usage of logic shown in nyAya sUtram;
  12. 2.4 vyApti and its types;

  1. 3. nyAya in traditional knowledge system;
  2. 3.1 nyAya - an Astika darshana;
  3. 3.1.1 mOksha or nishrEyasa in nyAya darshana(world view);

  1. 4. nyAya - an independent sastra(attributes to make it an independent one);
  2. 4.1 Different traditions of nyAya - navya and prAchIna;
  3. 4.2 Application of nyAya ideas in different traditions;

--Jammalamadaka Suryanarayana (talk) 07:22, 14 June 2018 (UTC)