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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:Nidhi Srinivas

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Anirudha Patel

Nidhi Srinivas is an Associate Professor of Management at Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment [1] as of July 2023. According to his University Profile, his area of research interest are Social Innovation and Design; Postcolonial studies and inclusion; Global civil society and NGOs; Critical theory.

He 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 July 2022.

In 2021, he 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, he 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. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Moving past binaries in management history: the scope for a postcolonial project and epistemic critique." Journal of Management History, 2020.
  2. Srinivas, Nidhi. "An anarchist prehistory of management." Management and Anarchism, edited by M. Parker, Routledge, 2020.
  3. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Environmental Grassroots Partnerships and Potential for Social Innovation." Environmental Sustainability from the Himalayas to the Oceans: Struggles and Innovations in China and India, edited by Shikui Dong, Jayanta Bandyopadhyay & Sanjay Chaturvedi, Springer, 2017, pp. 145-164.
  4. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Could a subaltern manage? Professional habitus and practice in a colonial workplace." Organization Studies, vol. 34, no. 11, 2013, pp. 1655–1674.
  5. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Epistemic and performative quests for authentic management in India." Organization, vol. 19, no. 2, 2012, pp. 145-158.
  6. Jack, Gavin, et al. "Deepening, broadening and re-asserting a postcolonial interrogative space in organization studies." Organization, vol. 18, no. 3, 2011, pp. 275-302.
  7. Mintzberg, Henry and Nidhi Srinivas. "Juxtaposing doers and helpers in development." Community Development Journal, vol. 45, no. 1, 2010, pp. 39-57.
  8. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Against NGOs?: A Critical Perspective on Nongovernmental Action." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4, 2009, pp. 614.
  9. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Mimicry and Revival: The Transfer and Transformation of Management Knowledge to India, 1959-1990." International Studies of Management & Organization, vol. 38, no. 4, 2008, pp. 38-57.
  10. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Managerialism and NGO advocacy: Handloom Weavers in India." The New Development Management: The Dual Modernization. London: Zed Books, 2008.
  11. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Cultivating Indian Management." The Civilized Organization: Norbert Elias and the Future of Organization, 2002.
  12. Araújo, CCS, et al. "Debating Black slavery in management and organizational studies from decolonial and afro-diasporic perspectives." Cadernos EBAPE. BR, vol. 21, 2023, e2023-0100.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Nidhi SrinivasUniversity Profile accessed July 15, 2023
  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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