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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:Prof. Ketu Katrak

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Sachi Anjunkar


Ketu H. Katrak is Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). She was founding Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies (1996-2004) at UCI[1] as of April 2024.

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

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."

Publications[edit]

  1. Katrak, Ketu. "Interrogating the 'Nation' in Contemporary Indian Dance in India and the Diaspora." South Asian Review, vol. 42, 2021, pp. 1-23, doi:10.1080/02759527.2021.1878988.
  2. Katrak, Ketu. "New Postcolonial Dialectics: An Intercultural Comparison of Indian and Nigerian English Plays." Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 14, 2020, pp. 1-3, doi:10.1080/21674736.2020.1712860.
  3. Katrak, Ketu. "Legacies of Loss and Trauma, Healing and Redemption: Cape Town Live Art Festival." TDR/The Drama Review, vol. 63, 2019, pp. 172-180, doi:10.1162/dram_a_00882.
  4. Katrak, Ketu. "Jay Pather Reimagining Site-Specific Cartographies of Belonging." Dance Research Journal, vol. 50, 2018, pp. 31-44, doi:10.1017/S0149767718000219.
  5. Katrak, Ketu. "The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition." Feminist Review, no. 110, 2015, doi:10.1057/fr.2015.5.
  6. Katrak, Ketu. "'Stripping Women of Their Wombs': Active Witnessing of Performances of Violence." Theatre Research International, vol. 39, 2014, pp. 31-46, doi:10.1017/S0307883313000539.
  7. Katrak, Ketu. "Representations of Gender and Sexuality by Selected Contemporary Indian Dancers." South Asian Review, vol. 34, 2013, pp. 133-148, doi:10.1080/02759527.2013.11932945.
  8. Katrak, Ketu. "Innovations in Contemporary Indian Dance: From Religious and Mythological Roots in Classical Bharatanatyam." Religion Compass, vol. 7, 2013, doi:10.1111/rec3.12030.
  9. Katrak, Ketu. "Conclusion: Ways of Looking Ahead." 2011, doi:10.1057/9780230321809_8.
  10. Katrak, Ketu. "Contested Histories: 'Revivals' of Classical Indian Dance and Early Pioneers of Contemporary Indian Dance." 2011, doi:10.1057/9780230321809_2.
  11. Katrak, Ketu. "Book Review: Janet O'Shea, At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage." Feminist Theory, vol. 10, 2009, pp. 135-136, doi:10.1177/14647001090100010702.
  12. Katrak, Ketu. "Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin. By Rustom Bharucha." The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 66, 2007, pp. 1099-1101, doi:10.1017/S0021911807001301.


References[edit]

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