India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

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This manifests in ways such as – claiming ridiculously that India was never a nation and that it was the occupiers who made it so.

And ultimately creates a new hochpoch khichdi conspiracy theory type narrative and present it to public. When direct rule by the crown followed, evangelical fervour was further stoked, with state protection given to the church’s activities. The further chapters aptly present the pervasion of the European form of colonization and the relevant ways for the same which rely on institutionalizing and how the same has acted as a tool to fortify their imperatives of coloniality. Although we are now an independent nation so to speak, there is ample amount of colonial traits that are glaringly and subtly visible in our political, legal, administrative, and other circles.This Volume-1, begins with a long section (over 25 per cent of the book’s length) identifying what Bharatiyas need to combat. There is no doubt that many of our acts and laws are totally outdated and definitely require much modification, and the author has presented the British acts and the Indian response/rebellion against most. For those who aren’t aware, the Portuguese inquisition in Goa was one of the most brutal events where Hindus were tortured using various means to convert to Christianity and become the followers of the ‘true religion’. The British parliament’s desires and directives were well internalised by a duo and led to an action plan in the Montagu-Chelsmsford (MontFord) Reforms 1918.

Indian society unquestionably accepted the ideas of modernity that came to dominate intellectual life in the nineteenth century and accepted as valid by both the colonizer and the colonized. Their subsequent role in subverting the indigenous Indic consciousness through a secularised and universalised Reformation, that is, constitutionalism, is examined. This is an abysmal understanding of global history and clear evidence of the nature and dominance of coloniality in Indian secular thinking.If one thinks it through, when coloniality rises, the acronym OET will have lost its first letter, because its indigenous organic past will have been slayed and put away as dead. The primary goals of decolonization as articulated by Sai Deepak include an untethering from the moorings of identity politics and a conclusive escape from the entrenched dogmas of exclusionary ethnocentrism (race politics in short). Sai Deepak while disagreeing with the Marxian claims of colonialism aiding and abetting development by way of establishing rail links etc, does not devote much space for rebutting this reformist tone of arguments. I have no doubt that India that is Bharat will be a welcome addition to the nascent corpus of literature in this specialist field. It is in this context that I put forward my review on a scholarly work which has perhaps arrived 40-50 years too late but is still going to be the bedrock on which all our future actions will build on to reclaim our glorious civilization and put it on a path that leads it to heights hitherto unheard.

Once that happened, India was limited to being a nation (and not a civilisational state, as befitted it) and agreed to be measured by LoN’s Standard of Civilisation; which meant Bharat’s civilisation was open to evaluation and certification by an essentially Anglo Saxon enterprise, which was certain of the civilising power of its faith. I am an engineer-turned-litigator practising as an arguing counsel before the High Court of Delhi and the Supreme Court of India. He defines four forms of colonialism: exploitative colonialism, settler colonialism, surrogate colonialism and internal colonialism, the first two being the best-known. The author then moves on to explain how the colonizer could dislodge awareness of one’s roots from the minds of Indian ‘heathens’.

The sarcasm in this statement does bring out a widely prevalent malaise – the lack of self-belief in Indian originality and a deeply entrenched colonial mindset. It is a must read for everyone who want to understand, how India has been colonised and its effect on Indian psyche(which is not talked much). The first section introduces the readers to the basic precepts of Colonisation and what it connotes and how the subjugation occurs.

Because of this he is unable to understand that actions of people can be attributed to things other than malevolence. There is good discussion about post-modernism and the coloniality and there is a clear overlap between his views and views of modern American and European, for lack of a better term, leftist literature. A destruction of all places of worship by the colonizer placed him in a convenient position to manipulate the original belief system of the colonized so as to be malleable to the former’s own motives.This was in Sep 2021 when a Minneapolis Church objected to the construction of a Hindu temple in the area. As I understand it, the difference between coloniality and post-coloniality is this: the former has unconsciously internalised the coloniser’s prescriptions, and the latter is consciously aligned with the coloniser’s mission. Neither does it lie in his understanding of Christian nature and intent of the European Coloniser or in his ability to put it down in the form of a scholarly book. One may describe the three respectively, as a culture’s metaphysical beliefs, knowledge structure and praxis of rites and rules.