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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
Āgāmī-karma literally means ‘the future karma (action)’.
Belief in karma (action) and punarjanma (reincarnation) is one of the fundamental dogmas of the religion. Karma or action, good or bad, must have its effect. Āgāmī-karma is the karma that is being done now or will be done in the future (before death). The results of these karmas will be produced later.
