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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.
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By Swami Harshananda
Vaivasvata literally means ‘son of Vivasvān’.
Āditya, the Sun-god, is known as Vivasvān. His wife was Saiṅjñā. Vaivasvata was their son. He is also known as Vaivasvata-manu and Srāddhadeva. He is the seventh in the series of Manus. It is his rule, called Manvantara, that is going on now.
