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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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Talk:Darshana Mini

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Rutvi Dattani


Darshana Mini is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at University of Wisconsin, Madison[1] as September 2022. According to her university profile, her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, sexuality, transnational media, migrant media and screen cultures of South Asia.

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, the Indian Government in the context of BJP government, the Indus Civilization, the impact or relationship between caste system and Hinduism as of May 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]

In 2016, she signed a letter[3] addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. The letter stated the following:

  1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization. The Rg Veda contains numerous mentions of horses and chariots but there is no conclusive material or fossil evidence for either at any Indus valley archeological site."
  2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."
  3. "The geographic location of the Indus Civilization lies in what is now contemporary India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The use of "South Asia" to describe this shared civilizational heritage is thus entirely appropriate in some places of the framework, even though South Asia is a modern term, and some source materials use the term ‘Ancient India.' "

Publications related to India[edit]

  1. Mini, D. "Transnational Ethical Screens: Empathetic Networks in Malayalam Cinema from the Gulf." Film History: An International Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, Fall 2020, pp. 141-169. muse.jhu.edu/article/777506.
  2. Mini, D. "Satellites of Belonging: Televisual Infrastructures and the Gulf-Malayali." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, vol. 14, nos. 1-2, 2021, pp. 81-111. doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01401002.
  3. Mini, D. "Cinema and the Mask of Capital: Labor Debates in the Malayalam Film Industry." Studies in South Asian Film and Media, vol. 11, no. 2, Dec. 2020, pp. 173-189. ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/safm/2020/00000011/00000002/art00002.
  4. Mini, D. "Dossier on ZEE5, India for the Global Internet Television Consortium." 2019. global-internet-tv.com/india-zee5/.
  5. Mini, D. "‘Un-sound’ Sounds: Pornosonics of Female Desire in Indian Mediascapes." Music, Sound, and Moving Image, vol. 13, no. 1, 2019, pp. 3-30. muse.jhu.edu/article/732643.
  6. Mini, D., and Anirban K. Baishya. "Translating Porn Studies: Lessons from the Vernacular." Porn Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2020, pp. 2-12. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23268743.2019.1632540.
  7. Mini, D., and Anirban K. Baishya. "Transgressions in Toonland: Savita Bhabhi, Velamma and the Indian Adult Comic." Porn Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2020, pp. 115-131. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23268743.2019.1590228.
  8. Mini, D. "The Rise of Soft-Porn in Malayalam Cinema and the Precarious Stardom of Shakeela." Feminist Media Histories, vol. 5, no. 2, 2019, pp. 49-82. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/5/2/49/109555.
  9. Mini, D. "Public Interest Television and Social Responsibility: The Search for Missing Person in Indian Television." International Journal for Digital Television, vol. 7, no. 2, 2016, pp. 173-191. ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jdtv/2016/00000007/00000002/art00003.
  10. Mini, D. "The Spectral Duration of Malayalam Soft-porn: Disappearance, Desire and Haunting." Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, 2016, pp. 127-150. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0974927616667971.
  11. Mini, D. "Attukal Pongala: Everyday Lives in a Ritualistic Space." In Transformations in Contemporary South Asian Ritual: From Sacred Action to Public Performance, edited by Ann David, Geoffrey Samuel, and Santi Rozario, Journal of Ritual Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2016, pp. 59-69. jstor.org/stable/44737780.
  12. Mini, D. "The House of Ill Repute: Malayalee House, Reality Television and Morality Debates in Contemporary Kerala." South Asian Popular Culture, vol. 13, no. 1, 2015, pp. 47-59. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14746689.2015.1026655.


References[edit]

  1. ↑ Darshana Mini page on University of Wisconsin, Madison accessed September 30, 2022
  2. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
  3. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group.pdf

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  1. ↑ Darshana Mini page on University of Wisconsin, Madison accessed September 30, 2022
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