India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

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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. This book seeks to unravel the veil of coloniality that has profoundly shaped the thinking of the conquered by white European Christian subjugation. While the abuse of a venerable language such as Sanskrit by an ignorant and condescending elitist such as Thomas Babington Macaulay should come as no surprise to anyone possessing even a shard of literacy, it is downright lamentable, that a person of the stature of Mohun Roy protested and railed against the dissemination of Sanskrit. This book essentially covers up to the year 1919, the same year in which the first Government of India Act was passed.

The most remarkable job that the author has done is delineating the relevant facts which instill a sense of perspective in the reader and make them realize that there does exist a gap between the modernist imperative and valid reasoning behind the same, for the idea of the same stems from colonization.Difficult to read but indeed thought provoking, enlightening(okay I should not use this word) and afcourse helps us to shed colonial baggage to wear a different lens altogether to see history and contemporary development in a different way. He was able to articulate many principles drawing on ancient Indian wisdom – which is rare in management thinking. However, the beauty of the book doesn't lie in its use of complex English terms, or Deepak's brilliance in matters of civilisation or his skills as a lawyer.

This is an abysmal understanding of global history and clear evidence of the nature and dominance of coloniality in Indian secular thinking. In the process of colonizing a nation, the colonizer by deliberately and carefully seeks to eviscerate the indigenous OET, before substituting the same with his own set of beliefs. Today, the international laws and treaties applied to non-western "nation-states" are all rooted in Protestant Reformation-inspired Westphalian principles.Finally, just as the Bhagavad Gita has been the guiding light and continues to be so for a multitude of generations of Bharatiyas, this book is going to be a beacon of light for all of us on the Indic side and is but the first light and a ray of hope for all surviving Indic communities for a path towards complete decoloniality that will ultimately lead to the reflourishing of the Indic Civilisation across the sacred geography of Bharat and world over. Even though the British state claimed to be secular and thus impartial to all religions, almost a quarter of this book is dedicated to list out the instances in which it went out of the way to promote Christian evangelism. 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.

The book lays out in an objective and lucid manner, the impact of colonialism on Bharat and some potential ways adopting which such impacts may be minimized, if not altogether, eliminated.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! Swarajya - a big tent for liberal right of centre discourse that reaches out, engages and caters to the new India. Incidentally, one of the crucial skills this book will teach you, is the ability to identify colonial and post-colonial minds.