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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:Jinee Lokaneeta

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By Anirudha Patel

Jinee Lokaneeta is a Professor and Chair of Political Science and International Relations at Drew University as of September 2022. According to her university profile, her research interests include gender and law, Guantanamo, human rights, Indian politics, law, policing, and torture.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India or the Indian Government in the context of BJP government.

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."[1]

Publications related to India[edit]

Books & Book Chapters[edit]

  1. Lokaneeta, Jinee. The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India. University of Michigan Press, 2020.
  2. Seri, Guillermina, and Jinee Lokaneeta. “Police as State: Governing Citizenship through Violence.” Springer EBooks, Springer Nature, Jan. 2018, pp. 55–80, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72883-4_3.
  3. Lokaneeta, Jinee. Transnational Torture Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India.

Papers[edit]

  1. Lokaneeta, Jinee. "Creating a Flawed Art of Government: Legal Discourses on Lie Detectors, Brain Scanning, and Narcoanalysis in India." Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2014.
  2. Lokaneeta, Jinee. "Sovereignty, Violence and Resistance in North East India: Mapping Political Theory Today." Theory & Event, 2017.
  3. Lokaneeta, Jinee. "Debating the Indian Supreme Court: Equality, Liberty, and the Rule of Law." Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2015.
  4. Lokaneeta, Jinee. "Iron and Steal: The POSCO India Story." Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015.
  5. Lokaneeta, Jinee, and Amar Jesani. "India." In Does Torture Prevention Work?, edited by Richard Carver and Lisa Handley.
  6. Lokaneeta, Jinee. "Defining an Absence: Torture 'Debate' in India." Economic and Political Weekly, 2 Jul. 2014.
  7. Lokaneeta, Jinee. "Jurisprudence on Torture and Interrogations in India. Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India." 2011.
  8. Lokaneeta, Jinee. "Rule of Law, Violence and Exception: Deciphering the Indian State in the Thangjam Manorama Inquiry Report." Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2018.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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