India that is Bharat

by J Sai Deepak

on Dec 24, 2024

The first volume of a whole trilogy, India, That Is Bharat, examines how European "colonial consciousness" (or "coloniality"), particularly its racial and religious undertones, impacted Bharat as the Indic civilization's successor state and the genesis of the Indian Constitution. By spanning the years between the Age of Discovery, which began with Christopher Columbus' journey in 1492, and the restructuring of Bharat through a British-made constitution (the Government of India Act of 1919), it establishes the groundwork for its sequels. This includes global events that had a direct influence on this journey, such as the establishment of the League of Nations by Western nations. Additionally, this book traces the roots of concepts that appear to be universal, such "humanism," "secularism," and "toleration," to Christian political theology.

It looks at how they later subverted the native Indic mentality through constitutionalism, a secularized and universalized Reformation. In order to further their mutual dislike of the Indic worldview, it also introduces the idea of Middle Eastern colonialism, which predates its European counterpart and allies with it in the context of Bharat. In the fields of environment, religion, culture, history, education, language, and, most importantly, constitutionalism, "decoloniality" is portrayed as a civilizational necessity to free Bharat's unique indigeneity.