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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. Meena Alexander

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Sachi Anjunkar


Meena Alexander was a Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. According to her university profile, her interest areas are poetry, transnational and Asian American poetics, gender, migration and memory.

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

In 2016, she signed a letter[1] 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 related to India[edit]

  1. Alexander, Meena. Illiterate Heart. Triquarterly, 2002.
  2. Alexander, Meena. Raw Silk. Triquarterly, 2004.
  3. Alexander, Meena. Quickly Changing River. Triquarterly, 2008.
  4. Alexander, Meena, editor. Indian Love Poems. Everyman’s Library, 2005.
  5. Alexander, Meena. Fault Lines. Feminist Press, 1993. Revised edition, 2003.
  6. Alexander, Meena. Nampally Road. Mercury House, 1991.
  7. Alexander, Meena. Manhattan Music. Mercury House, 1997.
  8. Alexander, Meena. The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience. South End Press, 1996.
  9. Alexander, Meena. Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley. Rowman & Littlefield, 1989.
  10. Alexander, Meena. Poetics of Dislocation. University of Michigan Press, 2009.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group.pdf
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