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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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Aparna Parvathi

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Aparna Parvathi

By
Kalyani Varadarajan

Translated by
P.R.Ramachander

Raga Nalinakanthi
Thala Rupaka

Pallavi

Aparna Parvathi Asritharthi prasamana kari

Anupallavi

Krupakari , trishodhari , apanga sudari , shankari

Charanam

Kapalesa sahithe , apara guna mahithe,
Nrupalanuthe , kalyani thapomaye dakshayani

English translation

Pallavi

Parvathi without a leaf , to whom one surrender,
And one who heals and takes away their pain

Anupallavi

One who is merciful , one who holds the Trishula,
A matchless beauty and consort of Shankara

Charanam

One who accompanies the God with skull , one who is full of divinity,
One to whom great kings were devotees,
One who does good and is saintly and daughter of Daksha.

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P.R.Ramachander

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