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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.


This book is the result of four years of rigorous research and academic peer-review, reflecting our ongoing commitment at Hindupedia to challenge the representation of Hindu Dharma within academia.

Dattātreya

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. gifted/ given by Atri
  2. a famous ŗşi and yogi of ancient India who was the son of Atri and Anusūyā, and considered to be the combined incarnation of Brahmā, Vişņu and Śiva, and the father of Soma, data and Durvāsā (M. Bh./ Hv. Pur./ Vi. Pur.); the first and foremost guru (adi guru) of the Natha Tradition of Śaivism, but also revered and regarded by all traditions of Tantra in general.