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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.

Category:Shabdakalpadrumah

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Krishna Maheshwari


Shabdakalpadrumah is one of the most comprehensive dictionary cum Encyclopedia of Sanskrit that was written in modern times. It provides the Etymology, gender, meanings, synonyms, quotations to illustrate usage and connotation for each word. These quotations have been drawn from major sources of Sanskrit literature including the Veda, Vedangas, Vedanta, Nyaya, other Darshanas, Purana-Itihasa, Sangita, Shilpa, Soopakarashastra, Jyotislia, Tantra-Akhyana, Kavya-Alankara-Chhanda Shastras, and Ayurveda.

It presents an authentic Dharma view, a practitioner-scholar view and not merely a scholarly/literary translation of previous work. The sponsor, Raja Radha Kanta Deva Bahadur worked with the best pundits and scholars of his time to assemble this encyclopedia in the 19th century.

The encyclopedia is 3,131 pages in length and split into five volumes. Each page having approximately 780 words.

Below are translated entries from Shabdakalpadrumah as published by Chaukamba Publishers.

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