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Colonial discourse and the suffering of indian American childrena Francophone postcolonial analysis /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Colonial discourse and the suffering of indian American childrenby Kundan Singh, Krishna Maheshwari.
Reminder of title:	a Francophone postcolonial analysis /
Author:	Singh, Kundan.
other author:	Mahesvari, Krshna.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024.
Description:	xv, 259 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	East Indian AmericansPsychology.
Subject:	IndiaIn literature.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57627-0
ISBN:	9783031576270$q(electronic bk.)

Colonial discourse and the suffering of indian American childrena Francophone postcolonial analysis /
Singh, Kundan.

Colonial discourse and the suffering of indian American childrena Francophone postcolonial analysis /[electronic resource] :by Kundan Singh, Krishna Maheshwari. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024. - xv, 259 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. 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.

Open access.

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. 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.

ISBN: 9783031576270$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-57627-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

978611
East Indian Americans
--Psychology.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

392991
India
--In literature.

LC Class. No.: LB3045.64

Dewey Class. No.: 371.32

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