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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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Chalamela

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

Chalamela Jesevayya

By

Mullai Veedu Ranga Swamy Nattuvanar

Translated by

P.R.Ramachander

Raga Natakurinji
Thala Aadi

(This is a Varnam , a type of song written for accompanying Bharatha Natya)

Pallavi

Chalamela jesevayyaa ma rangayya

Anupallavi

Kala kalamu nee padamule,
Gathiyanni nammi yudaga

Charanam

Nannu Brova Neeku Bharama

English Translation

Pallavi

My Lord Ranga, Do not keep this grudge on me

Anupallavi

When I for all times believed that,
Your feet is the only protection

Charanam

Is protecting me a great burden to you.



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