India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

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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. While I had knowledge of colonialism, like most others in India and British Colonialism to be precise, but had never heard of 'Coloniality'. Sai Deepak spares enough space to examine the difficulties posed by the framework of a nation-state on India. Because the author is a renowned lawyer, the points were put across convincingly but also repeatedly. 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.

A must-read tribute to the Indic civilisation for anyone serious about understanding the pernicious trajectory of invasive colonialism and the lingering colonial consciousness in the 'independent' Indian (or should we term this as he does, Bharateeya) mind, and how to consciously work towards reversing it. This absolutely brilliant piece of scholarship from Deepak I hope is only a beginning on this front from him and many others like him. By then, I expect there will be in the books, knowledge enough to hold one’s ground, and maybe even engage in combat.The lady is mostly a fifth or sixth-generation Catholic whose ancestors were among the ones who were raped, tortured, and murdered. If you are already a registered user of TheHindu Businessline and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. Quite early in the book, Sai Deepak will have introduced you to the acronym OET, that expands as ontology epistemology theology. However, the most important aspect of this section and the aspect where Deepak's brilliance shine through are where he discusses how the Christian OET was used to understand indigenous communities world over and Indic society with regard to Bharat. This book takes readers through the concept of decoloniality which seems to be the only option left with our civilization to survive the assault of coloniality which has been deeply imbibed in our consciousness.

Conflating the Devadasi tradition with prostitution, the Britishers equated temples with sites of prostitution and hence vociferously advocated a State takeover of the management and affairs. This book brings a lot of clarity on state if affairs of Bharat and the sorry state that claims Bharats legacy but hates it to the core.The book's overarching theme is decoloniality and why the decolonial lens is the ONLY way we need to look at our history and constitution. When you have read the book — or even just after reading this article — see if you can identify the colonials and post colonials amongst us and in politics, judiciary, legal fraternity, media and the academe. Pros: In the initial part of the book the authors discusses Decoloniality and how it has to be applied in the Indian context. The façade of neutrality according to him was Christian neutrality while the word secular must always be understood as Christian secularism, since India never had the problem of separating the religious from the state.

And ultimately creates a new hochpoch khichdi conspiracy theory type narrative and present it to public. 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. The vision of independence coined by native elites was limited to the politico-economic sphere but did not include decolonization on the cultural front. We are made aware of how these standardizations and laws percolate to this day, resulting in government control of Hindu temples in a supposedly "secular" state.

The author emphasizes how every stratum of our society bears a colonial stamp and why it is essential to judge all of our social structures, religion, polity, economics, and law using a decolonial approach and rejecting European-centric ideas.