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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.

Talk:Christiane brosius

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Rutvi Dattani


Christiane Brosius is a Professor of Visual and Media Anthropology at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), as of November 2022[1]. Her research focuses on the processes of urbanization, transcultural art production, and international migration.

She has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, or the Indian Government as of July 2023.

In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."[2]

Publications Related to India[edit]

  1. Brosius, Christiane. Patis in Patan. 2017. Online project/interactive platform about the architectural form of the arcaded resthouse and urban transformation in Patan, Nepal.
  2. Brosius, Christiane. India’s Middle Class. New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity. New Delhi, London, New York: Routledge, 2010. Out of print; second and paperback edition with additional introduction, January 2014.
  3. Brosius, Christiane, and Ravi Ahuja, editors. Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata. Annäherungen an Megastädte in Indien [Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata: Approaches to Indian Megacities]. Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag, 2006.
  4. Brosius, Christiane. "Emplacing and Excavating the City. Art, Ecology and Public Space in New Delhi." Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2015(1), 2015, pp. 75-125.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Christiane Brosius page on Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) accessed November 24, 2022
  2. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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