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COLONIAL DISCOURSE AND THE SUFFERING OF INDIAN ...

Euro-American misrepresentations of the non-West in general  and in particular on Hinduism and
ancient India  run deep and have far greater colonial connections than that have been exposed
in academia. This book analyzes the psycho-social consequences that Indian American children
face after they are exposed to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. The
authors show that there is an intimate connection-an almost exact correspondence-between James
Mill's colonial-racist discourse and the current school-textbook discourse. The very parameters
and coordinates on which James Mill constructed the discourse are the ones that are being used
to describe Hinduism  Hindus  and ancient India in the textbooks currently. Consequently  this
archaic and racist discourse  camouflaged under the cover of political correctness  produces in
the Indian American children a psychological impact quite similar to what racism is known to
produce: shame  inferiority  embarrassment  identity confusion  assimilation  and a phenomenon
similar to racelessness where the children dissociate from the tradition and culture of their
ancestors. This book argues that the current school textbook discourse on Hinduism and India
needs to change so that the Indian American children do not become victims of overt and covert
racism. For the change to occur  the first step is to recognize the overarching and pervasive
influence of the colonial-racist discourse of James Mill on the textbooks. For the
reconstruction of the discourse to take place  the first step is to engage in a thorough
deconstruction  which is what the book attempts.

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