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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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Dvivedi

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Dvivedi literally means ‘one who has studied two Vedas’.

It started as the academic title of a person who has studied two Vedas,[1] it gradually became the family title of persons born as his descendants. Similarly the evolution of the two other titles trivedī and caturvedī, for those who are the scions of the persons who had mastered three or four Vedas. Study of one Veda was the minimum expected of every dvija or the twice-born.


References[edit]

  1. ↑ dvi means two.
  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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