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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. Charu Gupta

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Sachi Anjunkar


Charu Gupta is a Senior Professor at the Department of History, University of Delhi[1] as of April 2024. According to her CV, her specialization is modern Indian history and gender history.

In 2016, she 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.' "

Pblications[edit]

  1. Das Gupta, M., C. Gupta, and K.M. Teaiwa. "Rethinking South Asian Diaspora Studies." Cultural Dynamics, vol. 19, nos. 2-3, 2007, pp. 125-140.
  2. Deshpande, S., C. Gupta, et al. "Social Science Teaching in Hindi: An Inventory and Analysis of Current Curricular Materials at Six North Indian Universities." Institute for Social and Economic Research and HEIRA, CSCS, Delhi, 2010.
  3. Gupta, Charu, and M. Sharma. Contested Coastlines: Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in South Asia. Routledge India, 2012.
  4. Gupta, Charu. "(Im)possible Love and Sexual Pleasure in Late-Colonial North India." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, 2002, pp. 195-221.
  5. Gupta, Charu. "‘Hindu Communism’: Satyabhakta, Apocalypses and Utopian Ram Rajya." The Indian Economic & Social History Review, vol. 58, no. 2, 2021, pp. 213-248.
  6. Gupta, Charu. "‘Innocent’ Victims/‘Guilty’ Migrants: Hindi Public Sphere, Caste and Indentured Women in Colonial North India." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 49, no. 5, 2015, pp. 1345-1377.
  7. Gupta, Charu. "5 Intimate Desires." In Living with Religious Diversity, 2015, p. 69.
  8. Gupta, Charu. "72Virangana Women: Dalit Counter-Histories of 1857." In Making the 'Woman', 2023, pp. 72-87.
  9. Gupta, Charu. "A Vernacular Archive of Sex and Sexuality: Personal Annotations." In Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia, 2023.
  10. Gupta, Charu. "Allegories of ‘Love Jihad’ and Ghar Wapsi: Interlocking the Socio-Religious with the Political." Rise of Saffron Power, 2018, pp. 84-110.
  11. Gupta, Charu. "Anxieties of Hindu Right in Everyday Realm." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 37, 2002, pp. 198-199.
  12. Gupta, Charu. "Archives and Sexuality: Vignettes from Colonial North India." In Gendering Colonial India, 2012, pp. 317-344.
  13. Gupta, Charu. "Articulating Hindu Masculinity and Femininity: 'Shuddhi' and 'Sangathan' Movements in United Provinces in the 1920s." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 33, no. 13, 1998, pp. 727-735.
  14. Gupta, Charu. "Cast (e) ing and Translating Sex in the Vernacular: The Writings of Santram BA in Hindi." Porn Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2020, pp. 19-35.
  15. Gupta, Charu. "Condemnation and Commemoration: (En) Gendering Dalit Narratives of 1857." In Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising Of 1857, 2014.
  16. Gupta, Charu. "Dalit 'Viranganas' and Reinvention of 1857." Economic and Political Weekly, 2007, pp. 1739-1745.
  17. Gupta, Charu. "'Dirty' Hindi Literature: Contests about Obscenity in Late Colonial North India." South Asia Research, vol. 20, no. 2, 2000, pp. 89-118.
  18. Gupta, Charu. "Disease and the Untouchable: Insights from Vernacular Histories of North India." Studies in People’s History, vol. 10, no. 2, 2023, pp. 230-245.
  19. Gupta, Charu. "Feminine, Criminal or Manly? Imaging Dalit Masculinities in Colonial North India." The Indian Economic & Social History Review, vol. 47, no. 3, 2010, pp. 309-342.
  20. Gupta, Charu. "Gains, Losses and/or Potential Possibilities: Gender and Social Reform in the United Provinces." In Exploring Gender Equations: Colonial and Postcolonial India, 2005.
  21. Gupta, Charu. "Gendering and Vernacularizing Conversions in India: Christianity, Clothing, and Cartoons." American Religion, vol. 3, no. 2, 2022, pp. 32-50.
  22. Gupta, Charu. "Hindu Women, Muslim Men: Love Jihad and Conversions." Economic and Political Weekly, 2009, pp. 13-15.
  23. Gupta, Charu. "Intimate Desires." In Living with Religious Diversity, 2015, p. 69.
  24. Gupta, Charu. "Intimate Desires: Dalit Women and Religious Conversions in Colonial India." The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 73, no. 3, 2014, pp. 661-687.
  25. Gupta, Charu. "Love Taboos: Controlling Hindu-Muslim Romances." The India Forum, 2021. Available online: https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/love-taboos-controlling-hindu-muslim-romances.
  26. Gupta, Charu. "Malleability of the Vernacular: Personal Anecdotes." South Asian Review, vol. 41, no. 2, 2020, pp. 197-199.
  27. Gupta, Charu. "Obscenity, Sexuality and the 'Other': Gender and Hindu Identity in Uttar Pradesh, 1880s-1930s." School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2000.
  28. Gupta, Charu. "Pluralities of Voices." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 45, no. 51, 2010, pp. 36-38.
  29. Gupta, Charu. "Politics of Gender: Women in Nazi Germany." Economic and Political Weekly, 1991, pp. WS40-WS48.
  30. Gupta, Charu. "Portrayal of Women in Premchand's Stories: A Critique." Social Scientist, 1991, pp. 88-113.
  31. Gupta, Charu. "Procreation and Pleasure: Writings of a Woman Ayurvedic Practitioner in Colonial North India." Studies in History, vol. 21, no. 1, 2005, pp. 17-44.
  32. Gupta, Charu. "Representing Dalit Bodies in Colonial North India." Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2012.
  33. Gupta, Charu. "Studying and Teaching Gender-Caste Histories in India: Problems, Possibilities, and Pleasures." Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference, vol. 1, 2023, pp. 26-34.
  34. Gupta, Charu. "The Icon of the Mother in Late Colonial North India: 'Bharat Mata', 'Matri Bhasha', and 'Gau Mata'." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 36, no. 45, 2001, pp. 4291-4299.
  35. Gupta, Charu. "The Icon of the Mother: 'Bharat Mata', 'Matri Bhasha' and 'Gau Mata'." In Sexuality, Obscenity, Community, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
  36. Gupta, Charu. "Vernacular Communism." Economic & Political Weekly, vol. 56, no. 23, 2021, p. 57.
  37. Gupta, Charu. "Women, Gender and Sexuality: Changing Historiographies of Colonial India—A Bibliographical Essay." Studies in People’s History, vol. 7, no. 2, 2020, pp. 192-204.
  38. Gupta, Charu. "Writing Sex and Sexuality: Archives of Colonial North India." Journal of Women's History, vol. 23, no. 4, 2011, pp. 12-35.
  39. Gupta, Charu. DAUD ALI (ed.): Invoking the past: the uses of history in South Asia. Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 101-152.
  40. Gupta, Charu. Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and Communalism. Orient Blackswan, 2012.
  41. Gupta, Charu. Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India. Permanent Black, Palgrave, 2001.
  42. Gupta, Charu. The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print. Permanent Black and University of Washington Press, 2016.

Shankar, S., and C. Gupta. "Caste and Life Narratives." 2019. No Title Available. Sharma, M., and C. Gupta. "Search for Answers at India Social Forum." Economic and Political Weekly, 2006, pp. 4937-4939.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Charu Gupta CV PDFaccessed on April 16,2024
  2. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group.pdf
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