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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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Anitya

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

  1. not eternal, not permanent
  2. temporary, transient.

Time, space and causation are great destroyers. Everything in this created world comes under their sway and hence gets changed, modified, decayed and destroyed. All such objects are called anitya as opposed to nitya which is the eternal unchanging principle. Philosophical systems generally accept the ātman and God as nitya and other things like the external objects or the body as anitya.

References[edit]

  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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Krishna Maheshwari

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