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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:Prof. Arvind Rajagopal

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Sachi Anjunkar


Arvind Rajagopal is Professor of Media Studies at New York University. He is an affiliated faculty in the Departments of Sociology and Social and Cultural Analysis [1]as of April 2024.

In 2016, he signed a letter[2] 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[edit]

  1. Rajagopal, A. Politics after Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  2. Rajagopal, A. Politics after Television: Religious Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Indian Public. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  3. Rajagopal, A. "Hindu Nationalism in the US: Changing Configurations of Political Practice." Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 23, no. 3, 2000, pp. 467-496.
  4. Rajagopal, A. "Violence of Commodity Aesthetics: Hawkers, Demolition Raids and a New Regime of Consumption." Economic and Political Weekly, 2002, pp. 65-76.
  5. Rajagopal, A. "The Rise of National Programming: The Case of Indian Television." Media, Culture & Society, vol. 15, no. 1, 1993, pp. 91-111.
  6. Rajagopal, A. "The Emergency as Prehistory of the New Indian Middle Class." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 45, no. 5, 2011, pp. 1003-1049.
  7. Rajagopal, A. The Indian Public Sphere: Readings in Media History. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Goldman, R., #Rajagopal, A. "Mapping Hegemony: Television News Coverage of Industrial Conflict." 1991.

  1. Rajagopal, A. "Ram Janmabhoomi, Consumer Identity and Image-Based Politics." Economic and Political Weekly, 1994, pp. 1659-1668.
  2. Rajagopal, A. "Thinking through Emerging Markets: Brand Logics and the Cultural Forms of Political Society in India." Social Text, 1999, pp. 131-149.
  3. Rajagopal, A. "Transnational Networks and Hindu Nationalism." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, vol. 29, no. 3, 1997, pp. 45-58.
  4. Rajagopal, A. "Advertising, Politics, and the Sentimental Education of the Indian Consumer." Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 14, no. 2, 1998, pp. 14-31.
  5. Rajagopal, A., Vohra, P. "On the Aesthetics and Ideology of the Indian Documentary Film: A Conversation." BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2012, pp. 7-20.
  6. Rajagopal, A. "Mediating Modernity: Theorizing Reception in a Non‐Western Society." The Communication Review, vol. 1, no. 4, 1996, pp. 441-469.
  7. Rajagopal, A. "Notes on Postcolonial Visual Culture." BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2011, pp. 11-22.
  8. Rajagopal, A. "Communalism and the Consuming Subject." Economic and Political Weekly, 1996, pp. 341-348.
  9. Rajagopal, A. "Visibility as a Trap in the Anna Hazare Campaign." Economic and Political Weekly, 2011, pp. 19-21.
  10. Rajagopal, A. "The Gujarat Experiment and Hindu National Realism." The Crisis of Secularism in India, 2006, pp. 208.
  11. Rajagopal, A. "And the Poor Get Gassed: Multinational—Aided Development and the State-The Case of Bhopal." Berkeley Journal of Sociology, vol. 32, 1987, pp. 129-152.
  12. Rajagopal, A. "The Rise of Hindu Populism in India’s Public Sphere." Current History, vol. 115, no. 780, 2016, pp. 123-129.
  13. Rajagopal, A. "On Media and Politics in India: An Interview with Paranjoy Guha Thakurta." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, 2017, pp. 175-190.
  14. Rajagopal, A., Rao, A. Media and Utopia: History, Imagination, and Technology. Routledge, 2017.
  15. Rajagopal, A. "Television in India: Ideas, Institutions, and Practices." The SAGE Handbook of Television Studies, 2014, pp. 83-104.
  16. Rajagopal, A. "Two Tyrants in the Age of Television." Economic and Political Weekly, 2014, pp. 12-15.
  17. Rajagopal, A., Dube, S., Banerjee-Dube, I. "Advertising in India: Genealogies of the Consumer-Subject." Handbook of Modernity in South Asia: Modern Makeovers. Oxford, 2011.
  18. Rajagopal, A. "The Sangh’s Role in the Emergency." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 38, no. 27, 2003.
  19. Rajagopal, A. "Living in a State of Emergency." Television & New Media, vol. 3, no. 2, 2002, pp. 173-175.
  20. Rajagopal, A. "Uses of the Past: The Televisual Broadcast of an Ancient Epic and Its Reception in Indian Society." University of California, Berkeley, 1992.
  21. Rajagopal, A. "Afterword: A Public Sphere Turned Inside Out: A Brief Global History of Indian Media." International Journal of Digital Television, vol. 7, no. 2, 2016, pp. 209-216.
  22. Rajagopal, A. "An American Theory of the Public Sphere." Sociological Forum, vol. 21, 2006, pp. 147-157.
  23. Rajagopal, A. "Mediating Modernity." Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 1, no. 4, 2003, p. 308.
  24. Rajagopal, A. "Urban Segregation and the Special Political Zone in Ahmedabad: An Emerging Paradigm for Religio-Political Violence." South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2011.
  25. Rajagopal, A. "Art for Whose Sake? Artistic Citizenship as an Uncertain Thing." Artistic Citizenship, 2006, pp. 143-156.
  26. Rajagopal, A. "The Emergency and the Sangh." The Hindu: India’s National Daily, 2003.
  27. Rajagopal, A. "Thinking through Emerging Markets: Brand Logics and Cultural Forms of Political Society in India." Economic and Political Weekly, 2001, pp. 773-782.
  28. Rajagopal, A. "Beyond Media Therapy." Television & New Media, vol. 10, no. 1, 2009, pp. 130-132.
  29. Rajagopal, A. "The BJP Publicity Effect." The Hindu: India’s National Daily, 2004.
  30. Rajagopal, A., Ember, M., Ember, C., Skoggard, I. "Hindu Diaspora in the United States." Encyclopaedia of Diasporas, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004, pp. 445-454.
  31. Rajagopal, A. "Tamil Nadu Co-operative Movement in Peril." Economic and Political Weekly, 1988, pp. 2258-2259.
  32. Rajagopal, A. "The Strange Light of Postcolonial Enlightenment: Mediatic Form and Publicity in India." This is Enlightenment: An Invitation in the Form of an Argument, 2010.
  33. Rajagopal, A. "Reforms with a Dalit Face?" Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 39, no. 49, 2004, pp. 5229-5231.
  34. Rajagopal, A. "Comparative Studies in South Asian Culture and Society." Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 1, 2004, pp. 127-144.
  35. Rajagopal, A. "The Cultures of Globalization." Edited by Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi. The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 59, no. 2, 2000, pp. 388-390.
  36. Rajagopal, A. "Robert Bellah: A Cold War Sociologist?" Civic Sociology, vol. 3, no. 1, 2022, 37887.
  37. Rajagopal, A. "Media versus Masses? Contemporary Populism and the Crisis of Late Liberalism: Notes from the US and India." Culture Machine, vol. 19, 2020.
  38. Rajagopal, A. "The Cold War as an Aesthetic Phenomenon: An Afterthought on Boris Groys." Javnost-The Public, vol. 26, no. 4, 2019, pp. 370-374.
  39. Rajagopal, A. "Introduction: Media and Utopia." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 35, no. 1, 2015, pp. 2-7.
  40. Rajagopal, A., Vohra, P. "BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies." Screen, vol. 2, no. 1, 2011, pp. 11-22.
  41. Rajagopal, A. "Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt—By Lila Abu‐Lughod." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 13, no. 4, 2007, pp. 1051-1052.
  42. Rajagopal, A. "The Emergency and Popular Memory." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 39, no. 45, 2004, pp. 4892-4894.
  43. Rajagopal, A. "Special Topic: America and Its Others: Cosmopolitan Terror as Globalization?" Routledge, 2004.
  44. Rajagopal, A. "Comparative Studies in Culture and Media in South Asia: Review Essay." Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 3, 2004, pp. 16-33.
  45. Rajagopal, A. "The New ‘New War’and an Old Problem." Economic and Political Weekly, 2002, pp. 1458-1459.
  46. Rajagopal, A. "Switching Channels. Ideologies of Television in India. By Nilanjana Gupta." The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 58, no. 2, 1999, pp. 547-548.
  47. Rajagopal, A. "Between Europe and America: An Interview with Werner Sollors." Public Culture, vol. 32, no. 2, 2020, pp. 255-285.
  48. Rajagopal, A. "The Emergency." Economic & Political Weekly, vol. 54, no. 22, 2019.
  49. Rajagopal, A. "Shriram Venkatraman, Social Media in South India: Why We Post." Asian Ethnology, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019, pp. 220-222.
  50. Rajagopal, A., Nieminen, H. "Javnost/The Public: The Unwritten History of Cold War Media Theory." Routledge-Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
  51. Rajagopal, A. "Monumentality and Insurgency." The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement, 2018.
  52. Rajagopal, A., Doniger, W., Nussbaum, M. "Wrecked Cityscapes and Aesthetic Improvement: Discreet Charms of a Globalizing Metropolis. Tales from Mumbai: Implementing Pluralism and Democracy." Academic Journal, 2015.
  53. Goldman, R., Rajagopal, A. "Edited by Stephen D. Reese (University of Texas-Austin) and Diane Carothers (University of Illinois-Urbana)." 2012.
  54. Rajagopal, A. "Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities." American Journal of Sociology, vol. 115, no. 1, 2009, pp. 316-317.
  55. Rajagopal, A. "Hindu Nationalism: A Reader." Edited by Christophe Jaffrelot. Politics and Religion, vol. 1, no. 3, 2008, pp. 471-473.
  56. Rajagopal, A. "Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture." American Journal of Sociology, vol. 113, no. 3, 2007, pp. 866-869.
  57. Rajagopal, A. "Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC." American Journal of Sociology, vol. 111, no. 6, 2006, pp. 1967-1969.
  58. Rajagopal, A. "The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications." SOCIOLOGICAL FORUM, vol. 21, no. 1, 2006, pp. 147-157.
  59. Rajagopal, A. "Hinduism and Media." Encyclopaedia on Religion and Media, Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2006, pp. 255-261.
  60. Rajagopal, A. "The Poor Are Only Peeping Toms. Consumption and Urban India." Article in Info Change, 2005.
  61. Rajagopal, A., Morley, D. "A Nation and its Immigration: the US After September 11." Media and Cultural Theory, London and New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. 71-86.
  62. Rajagopal, A. "India Shining: A View From Abroad?" The Hindu: India’s National Daily, 2004.
  63. Rajagopal, A. "An Evening at Gandhi’s Ashram." The Hindu: India’s National Daily, 2004.
  64. Rajagopal, A. "Introduction: America and Its Others." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, 2004, pp. 317-330.
  65. Humphrey, C., Verdery, K., Rajagopal, A. "The Menace of Hawkers: Property Forms and the Politics of Market Liberalization in Mumbai: Changing Property Regimes in Eastern Europe." Wenner Gren Foundation and Bergen Press, London, 2004, pp. 227-250.
  66. Rajagopal, A. "Understanding Hindu Nationalism through its Development as a Mass-Mediated Movement." Quadrante: Areas, Cultures, and Positions= 四分儀: 地域・文化・位置のための総合, 2004.
  67. Rajagopal, A. "A New Twist in the Gujarat Conspiracy." South Asia Citizens Wire, 2003.
  68. Rajagopal, A. "Charlotte Brunsdon, The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera." Screen, vol. 43, no. 4, 2002, pp. 447-451.
  69. Rajagopal, A. "Politics after Television, Religious Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Indian Public." Current Anthropology, vol. 43, no. 4, 2002, pp. 680-682.
  70. Rajagopal, A. "Anand Patwardhan, Film-maker." Critical Asian Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2002, pp. 161-165.
  71. Rajagopal, A. "The New ‘New War’ and an Old ‘Hot Spot’." www.opendemocracy.net, 2001.
  72. Rajagopal, A. "Visualizing Politics: Essay in Special Independence Day Issue ‘What is an Indian?’." Outlook (New Delhi), 2001.
  73. Rajagopal, A. "Technologies of Perception." Duke University Press, 2001.
  74. Rajagopal, A. "Politics after Television, Religious Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Indian Public." Journal of Communication, vol. 51, no. 4, 2001, pp. 832-833.
  75. Rajagopal, A. "Mediating Modernity." De-Westernizing Media Studies, 2000, p. 293.
  76. Rajagopal, A. "The Rise and Fall of Secular Realism." How Film Histories Were Made, vol. 100, no. 2, 1998, pp. 283.
  77. Rajagopal, A. "Consumer Identity." Economic and Political Weekly, 1994, pp. 2110-2110.
  78. Rajagopal, A., Rudolph, S., Fernandes, L., Rotman, A. "Postcolonial Improvisations on Orientalism: A Hindu Epic Goes Prime Time." Institute on Culture and Consciousness Occasional Papers, 1994, pp. 112-134.
  79. Rajagopal, A. "Media and Utopia." Antropologia Obrazów „Usieciowionych”—Elementy Komunikacji Wspólnot Interpretacyjnych, J Fauer, A #Rajagopal, 1-132.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Arvind Rajagopal University Profile accessed on April 12, 2024
  2. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group.pdf
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