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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. Kanishka Chowdury

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Sachi Anjunkar


Kanishka Chowdhury is a Professor of English, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul[1] as of April 2024. According to his university profile, his research interests include human rights; immigration studies; race and contemporary US film; the politics of abolition

He has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the Indus Civilization, or caste.

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."

Publications[edit]

  1. Chowdhury, K. "Interrogating 'Newness': Globalization and Postcolonial Theory in the Age of Endless War." Cultural Critique, 2006, pp. 126-161.
  2. Chowdhury, K. The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization. Springer, 2011.
  3. Chowdhury, K. "Revisioning History: Shashi Tharoor's Great Indian Novel." World Literature Today, vol. 69, no. 1, 1995, pp. 41-48.
  4. Chowdhury, K. "It's All Within Your Reach: Globalization and the Ideologies of Postnationalism and Hybridity." Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice, vol. 9, 2002.
  5. Chowdhury, K. "Afrocentric Voices: Constructing Identities, [Dis]Placing Difference." College Literature, vol. 24, no. 2, 1997, pp. 35-56.
  6. Chowdhury, K. "Teaching the Postcolonial Text: Strategies and Interventions." College Literature, vol. 19, no. 3/1, 1992, pp. 191-194.
  7. Chowdhury, K. "Theoretical Confrontations in the Study of Postcolonial Literatures." Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, 1991, pp. 609-616.
  8. Chowdhury, K. "Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age." Springer, 2019.
  9. Chowdhury, K. "Transnational Transgressions: Reading Mira Nair's Kama Sutra and Deepa Mehta's Fire in a Global Economy." South Asian Review, vol. 24, no. 1, 2003, pp. 180-201.
  10. Chowdhury, K. "(En) Countering the Refugee: Capital, Óscar Martínez’s The Beast, and the 'Problem' of the Surplus Population." Postcolonial Text, vol. 12, no. 3&4, 2017.
  11. Chowdhury, K. "Gender Rights and the Politics of Empowerment." In Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age, pp. 105-148, Springer, 2019.
  12. Chowdhury, K. "Rosa Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital, Postcolonial Theory, and the Problem of Present Day Imperialisms." New Formations, no. 94, 2018, pp. 142-160.
  13. Chowdhury, K. "Postcolonial Longings." MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, 2000, pp. 496-500.
  14. Chowdhury, K. "Documenting the Migrant Journey in Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow and Diego Quemada-Díez’s La Jaula de Oro." In Border Rules: An Abolitionist Refusal, pp. 141-178, 2023.
  15. Chowdhury, K. "Globalization and the South Asian Novel." 2019.
  16. Chowdhury, K. "‘Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us’: Rights Discourse, the State, and Toxic Capitalism in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People." In Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age, pp. 149-185, Springer, 2019.
  17. Chowdhury, K. "Refugees’ Rights: Capital, Óscar Martínez’s The Beast, Gianfranco Rosi’s Fuocoammare, and the 'Problem' of the Surplus Population." In Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age, pp. 187-223, Springer, 2019.
  18. Chowdhury, K. "Outsiders in Ferguson." Counterpunch, 2014.
  19. Chowdhury, K. "Transnational Transgressions: Reading the Gendered Subject in Mira Nair’s Kama Sutra, Deepa Mehta’s Fire, and Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham." In The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization, pp. 145-181, 2011.
  20. Chowdhury, K. "In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures." Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 1993, pp. 206-211.
  21. Chowdhury, K. "Writing Histories, Constructing Identities: Postcolonial Narratives of Cultural Recovery." Purdue University, 1993.
  22. Chowdhury, K. "Visualizing Borders: MIA’s 'Borders' and Mural Art in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso." In Border Rules: An Abolitionist Refusal, pp. 179-224, 2023.
  23. Chowdhury, K. "Theorizing Borders in the Shadow of Imperial Violence." In Border Rules: An Abolitionist Refusal, pp. 71-106, 2023.
  24. Chowdhury, K. "Narrating the Border: Fluidity, Gender, and Resistance in Rabih Alemmedine’s The Wrong End of the Telescope and Yuri Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World." In Border Rules: An Abolitionist Refusal, pp. 107-140, 2023.
  25. Chowdhury, K. "A Borderless World: Abolition Democracy and the Politics of Refusal." In Border Rules: An Abolitionist Refusal, pp. 225-249, 2023.
  26. Chowdhury, K. "Border Rules: Imperialism, Race, and the Politics of Development." In Border Rules: An Abolitionist Refusal, pp. 27-69, 2023.
  27. Chowdhury, K. "Border Rules and Oppositional Currents." In Border Rules: An Abolitionist Refusal, pp. 1-25, 2023.
  28. Chowdhury, K. Border Rules: An Abolitionist Refusal. Springer Nature, 2023.
  29. Chowdhury, K. "Racial Justice and Social Change: History, Culture, Transformation, and Healing in a Time of Crisis." 2020.
  30. Chowdhury, K. "Workers’ Rights, Exploitation, and the Transactional Moment." In Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age, pp. 65-103, Springer, 2019.
  31. Chowdhury, K. "Introduction: Reading Rights Discourse in a Transnational Economy." In Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age, pp. 1-15, Springer, 2019.
  32. Chowdhury, K. "Historicizing Rights Discourse Post-9/11." In Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age, pp. 17-63, Springer, 2019.
  33. Chowdhury, K. "What’s Going On: Imperialism in the 21st Century." 2017.
  34. Chowdhury, K. "Surplus Population and the Value of Money in Patnaik’s A Theory of Imperialism." 2017.
  35. Chowdhury, K. "Imperialism." In The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, pp. 1-7, 2016.
  36. Chowdhury, K. "Rosa Luxemburg Reads the Present Crisis." 2016.
  37. Chowdhury, K. "Imperialism and the Racial Other." 2016.
  38. Chowdhury, K. "On Anger: Race, Cognition, Narrative." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 40, no. 1, 2015, pp. 206-208.
  39. Chowdhury, K. "Racism, Exploitation, and the Credit Mechanism of Contemporary Capitalism." 2015.
  40. Chowdhury, K. "Naturalizing Transnational Exploitation." 2015.
  41. Chowdhury, K. "Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital." Science & Society, vol. 78, no. 4, 2014, pp. 545-548.
  42. Chowdhury, K. "Transformative Justice and the Transactional Moment." 2014.
  43. Chowdhury, K. "Narratives of Enrichment." 2014.
  44. Chowdhury, K. "Rights Talk and the Accumulation of Wealth." 2014.
  45. Chowdhury, K. "Paths to Revolution." Mediations, 2013.
  46. Chowdhury, K. "Malala Yousefzai and the Modern Subject." Counterpunch, 2013.
  47. Chowdhury, K. "Justice, Dialectics, and the Discourse of Rights." 2013.
  48. Chowdhury, K. "Going Global: Texts and Contexts in the New India." In The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization, pp. 23-58, 2011.
  49. Chowdhury, K. "Polemics and Promises: Constructing the Consumer Citizen." In The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization, pp. 59-105, 2011.
  50. Chowdhury, K. "‘Who Will Build Our Taj Mahal?’ Urban Displacement, Spatial Politics, and the Resistant Subject." In The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization, pp. 183-209, 2011.
  51. Chowdhury, K. "The Prompter’s Whisper: The National Imaginary and the Cosmopolitan Subject in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land and The Hungry Tide." In The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization, pp. 107-144, 2011.
  52. Chowdhury, K. "Deflecting Crisis: Critiquing Capitalism's Emancipatory Narrative." Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice, vol. 17, 2010.
  53. Chowdhury, K. "A Life Looking Forward: Memoirs of an Independent Marxist." Science & Society, vol. 73, no. 4, 2009, p. 567.
  54. Andriano, J., C. Awuyah, J. Bowdan, P. Brantlinger, C. Bush, D. Callaghan, ..., K. Chowdhury. "COLLEGE LITERATURE REFEREES, 2002-2003." College Literature, vol. 30, 2003, pp. 192-195.
  55. Chowdhury, K. "It's All Within Your Reach: Nationalisms in the Age of the Global Economy." Cultural Logic, 2002.
  56. Chowdhury, K. "The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction." MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, 1998, pp. 471-473.
  57. Chowdhury, K. "The Rhetoric of English India," by Sara Suleri. Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 1993, p. 206.
  58. Chowdhury, K. "Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India." MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 1991, pp. 331-332.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Kanishka Chowdhury University Profile accessed 17 April, 2024
  2. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group.pdf
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