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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:Papori Bora

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Renuka Joshi


Papori Bora is an Assistant Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University as of May 23, 2023.[1] [2] According to her university profile, her areas of interest include feminist theory and methodology; postcolonial and transnational feminist theories; gendered violence; democracy and human rights; feminist political theory; law and citizenship; sexuality studies; queer theory; globalization and diaspora studies; transnational migration; gender and development; South Asian history, politics and culture; subaltern studies; Asian borderlands; gender and politics in India’s Northeast.

As per her bio, 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 October 2022

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 in 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."[3]

Publications related to India[edit]

  1. Bora, Papori. "Between the Human, the Citizen and the Tribal: Reading Feminist Politics in India's Northeast." JNU, Dec. 2015.
  2. Bora, Papori. "Displacement and Citizenship Histories and Memories of Exclusion." JNU, Aug. 2020.
  3. Bora, Papori. "Politics of Difference in the Northeast: A Feminist Reflection." JNU, Aug. 2022.
  4. Bora, Papori. "South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies the Problem Without a Name: Comments on Cultural Difference (Racism) in India." JNU, Jan. 2019.
  5. Bora, Papori. "Speech of the Nation and Conversations at the Margins of the Nation-State." JNU, Dec. 2015.
  6. Bora, Papori. "The Problem Without a Name: Comments on Cultural Difference (Racism) in India." JNU, Oct. 2021.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Papori Bora University profile, accessed May 23, 2023
  2. ↑ Papori Bora academia profile, accessed May 23, 2023
  3. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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