India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

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He defines four forms of colonialism: exploitative colonialism, settler colonialism, surrogate colonialism and internal colonialism, the first two being the best-known. He was able to provide “evidence” but such “evidence” is usually (not always) circumstantial and nothing but rationalisation of the people of those times to attribute their actions to some sort of spiritual endeavour to justify themselves.

The sources mined are diverse and it comes as no surprise that the notes to the book are capable of constituting a stand-alone block of precocious resources for further embellishing and distilling one’s knowledge in the domains of decolonization and Indic OET. This was in Sep 2021 when a Minneapolis Church objected to the construction of a Hindu temple in the area. It also puts forth the concept of Middle Eastern coloniality, which preceded its European variant and allies with it in the context of Bharat to advance their shared antipathy towards the Indic worldview. Sai Deepak spares enough space to examine the difficulties posed by the framework of a nation-state on India.However, while the British colonisation of India was undoubtedly for the sole purpose of commerce and denuding the country and all its resources for the benefit of the parent nation, let us not forget that the English language opened up a world of new ideas and great scientific developments which are worth following.

Today, the international laws and treaties applied to non-western "nation-states" are all rooted in Protestant Reformation-inspired Westphalian principles. If you are thinking to begin your reading journey in Indic Genre then you, as a beginner, must avoid the book but once you think you are ready for this one then you must not wait for even a second!The very idea of India, its civilizational unity, its relationship with time and its subjectivity have been thus tied to the advent of the colonizer.

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’. What is really unexpected for the readers is to learn that the modern morals shared by colonialism such as rationality and secularism were shaped by reformative concepts on Christianity which found its expression in the Protestant Reformation. Even though the author makes it clear that he is not a Marxist, rather insists that he is an anti-Marxist, such a worldview is clearly evident from his writings.One may describe the three respectively, as a culture’s metaphysical beliefs, knowledge structure and praxis of rites and rules.

He also shows us how the clashes between Roman Catholics and Protestants were the reason for various modern day concepts of 'Church and State', secularism, tolerance etc. 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. Unbeknown to us, the colonized people’s thoughts are restrained within the bounds set by ideas having a colonial origin. The beauty entirely lies in the ugly, uncomfortable and often terrifying and spine chilling questions it poses to the reader and how those questions put a mirror to the Indic society and the petrifying form of its present state of existence.You can verify this from the tens of viral videos at large in which he takes on all questions, however tricky and answers them with ease and precision.