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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. Keya Ganguly

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Sachi Anjunkar


Keya Ganguly is a Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities[1] as of April 2024. According to her university profile, her research interests include center on film, critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Indian political theory, postcolonial studies, and the sociology of culture

She has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the Indus Civilization, the impact or relationship between caste system and Hinduism.

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.' "

Publications[edit]

  1. Ganguly, Keya. Carnal Knowledge: Visuality and the Modern in 'Charulata'. 1996.
  2. Ganguly, Keya. Migrant Identities: Personal Memory and the Construction of Selfhood. 1992.
  3. Ganguly, Keya. "Temporality and Postcolonial Critique." Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (2004).
  4. Ganguly, Keya. Cinema and Universality: On Satyajit Ray's APUR SANSAR. Race and Class, 2002.
  5. Ganguly, Keya. "Adorno, Authenticity, Critique." (2002).
  6. Ganguly, Keya. Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray. University of California Press, 2010.

Reference[edit]

  1. ↑ Keya Ganguly University Profile accessed 10 April, 2024
  2. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group.pdf
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