LEADER 04399nam 22006495 450 001 9910850887203321 005 20250808093223.0 010 $a9783031576270 010 $a3031576276 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-57627-0 035 $a(CKB)31801673800041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31323976 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31323976 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-57627-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931801673800041 100 $a20240426d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aColonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children $eA Francophone Postcolonial Analysis /$fby Kundan Singh, Krishna Maheshwari 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (268 pages) 311 08$a9783031576263 311 08$a3031576268 327 $a1. James Mill and the History of the History of British India -- 2. The Francophone Postcolonial Thinkers and the Colonizer-Colonized Dialectic -- 3. Primitivizing the Hindus: Hindus as Hierarchical and Oppressive -- 4. Imagining the Hindus and Hinduism -- 5. Mill?s Colonial-Racist Discourse in School Textbooks -- 6. Damaging Psychological Consequences of the Discourse. 330 $aEuro-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. Kundan Singh is a professor at Sofia University, Palo Alto, the president of the Cultural Integration Fellowship, San Francisco, and a senior fellow at Hindupedia, Cupertino. Krishna Maheshwari has an MBA from Harvard Business School, and from Cornell University an MS in Computer Engineering and a BS in Computer Science. He works as the Chief Product Officer at NeuroBlade. Krishna also founded and directs the research institution Hindupedia. 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aPostcolonialism 606 $aHinduism 606 $aEducation$xPhilosophy 606 $aImperialism 606 $aPostcolonial Philosophy 606 $aHinduism 606 $aPhilosophy of Education 606 $aImperialism and Colonialism 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 0$aPostcolonialism. 615 0$aHinduism. 615 0$aEducation$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aImperialism. 615 14$aPostcolonial Philosophy. 615 24$aHinduism. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Education. 615 24$aImperialism and Colonialism. 676 $a325.32 700 $aSingh$b Kundan$01737440 701 $aMaheshwari$b Krishna$01737441 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910850887203321 996 $aColonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children$94159329 997 $aUNINA