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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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Talk:Subir Sinha

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By Anirudha patel


Subir Sinha is Reader in the Theory and Politics of Development, Department of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, as of June 2023 [1]. According to his bio, his research interests include institutions, international institutions, social movements, sustainable development, NGOs, South Asian politics, and development interventions.

In 2021, he endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."[2]

Publications related to India[edit]

Book sections[edit]

  1. Sinha, Subir. "Structures and Subjectives." Staking Claims: The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India, edited by U. Chandra and D. Taghioff, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 225-234.
  2. Sinha, Subir. "On the Edge of Civil Society in Contemporary India." New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India, edited by Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Srila Roy, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 225-254.
  3. Sinha, Subir, et al. "Rethinking Indian Environmentalism. Industrial Pollution in Delhi and Fisheries in Kerala." Forging Environmentalism. Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments., edited by J. Bauer, Routledge, 2006, pp. 189-256.
  4. Sinha, Subir. "Development Counternarratives: Taking Social Movements Seriously." Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India, edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan and Arun Agrawal, Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 286-311.
  5. Sinha, Subir. "Development Counter-Narratives: Taking Social Movements Seriously." Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India, edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan and Arun Agrawal, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 286-312.

Journal Articles[edit]

  1. Sinha, Subir. "Modi’s 'people' and populism’s imagined communities." Seminar: The Monthly Symposium, no. 756, 2022.
    Subir Sinha makes multiple allegations against “people who follow Hinduism” and calls them “Modi’s People” in an attempt to show an association between the wrongdoings of other people as of the acts of the Indian Government.
    The author makes malicious and false false claims about the Indian Government without providing any evidence to support his opinion:
    • Carries an "annihilationist agenda" or that it seeks the total destruction of something, whether it's an ideology, institution, or group.
    • Calls out “Muslims” as enemies and participated in population reduction (aka genocide), as well as reduced their rights and their public presence.
    • Developed strategies to enforce the boundaries with citizens that they consider to be "enemies"
    • Crafted and circulated fake news, fake history and morphed images of former Prime Ministers
    He further goes on to malign the Prime Minister of India stating without any evidence, stating that the Prime Minister
    • Serves as a "finger in the wound" for Muslims in India.
    • Speaks about various temples with malicious intent
    He also attacks Hindu groups asserting that they claimed ownership of the term 'seva' when, during COVID-19, Muslim groups were caught distributing contaminated food, once again without any evidence
  2. Sinha, Subir. "Fragile Hegemony: Modi, Social Media and Competitive Electoral Populism in India." International Journal of Communication, vol. 11, 2017, pp. 4158-4180.
  3. Sinha, Subir. "Histories of Power’ and the ‘Universalisation of Capital’ in India: Between and Beyond Marxism and Postcolonial Theory." Critical Sociology, vol. 43, no. 4-5, 2016, pp. 529-544.
  4. Sinha, Subir, and Rashmi Varma. "Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate?" Critical Sociology, vol. 43, no. 4-5, 2015, pp. 545-558.
  5. Sinha, Subir, and P. Baumann. "Linking Development with Democratic Processes in India: Political Capital and Sustainable Livelihoods Analysis." Natural Resource Perspectives, Overseas Development Institute, no. 68, 2001, pp. 2-5.
  6. Sinha, Subir. "The 'New Traditionalist' Discourse of Indian Environmentalism." Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 24, no. 3, 2000, pp. 169-204.
  7. Sinha, Subir. "The Other Agrarian Transition? Structures, Institutions, and Agency in Sustainable Rural Development." Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, 2000, pp. 65-99.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Subir Sinha page on SOAS University of London accessed August 2023
  2. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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