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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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Dhruvapada

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By Jit Majumdar


  1. fixed verse; fixed poetry
  2. the ancient form of Indian classical music based on the vocal idiom, where a short piece of poem of four lines (mostly devotional) is set to a rāga, with a single melodic line, that is preceded by a long, slow elaborate improvisation, or ālāpa, sung in a recurrent set pattern that cannot be changed or tampered with. The four lines, in serial order, are termed sthāyi, antarā, sañcāri and ābhoga. More popularly called Dhrupada, it is the forerunner of the later forms of classical music.

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