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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
Nābhi was the son of the king Agnīdhra and Vipracitti. Priyavrata was his grandfather. His wife was Merudevī and the great king Rṣabha was his son and successor. The kingdom ruled by him came to be known as Nābhivarṣa or Ajanābhavarsa, same as Bhāratavarṣa.
