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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:Kavitha Mukund

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

I attended Cornell University from the Fall of 2002 to the Spring of 2006 to major in Environmental Sciences. Along with my other activities, I participated heavily in the Hindu Students Council for all four years. I entered first as a member, was then promoted to Treasurer, then finally as President of the organization. After my graduation from Cornell, I spent a year working for the environmental campaigns of two non-profit organizations. In the first of these positions, I advocated support for global warming legislation in Washington DC and in the second position during this time, I designed the structure of and implemented a campaign for awareness on global warming. The following year, I entered the Pace University School of Law to concentrate on environmental and international law. During my time in law school, I spent two years on the Pace Environmental Law Review, first as an Associate Editor then as Managing Editor and obtained research assistantships with three professors. I also participated in and then became president of the Asian American Law Students Organization of our school.