If you believe these stories should be told and those in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement remembered, join us! 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. We are shown how the colonial approach has played out in different parts of the world, especially in Latin America and how the decolonial system needs to revisit each country's individual experience and their own history. Decoloniality was first coined in Latin America and was first proposed in the 1980's and is now spread to South America and most parts of Africa. Even during the peak of the European colonization of Bharat, many scholars stood up prominently against it.

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. This book raises many issues which need serious thinking about – but with the divisions we have in society today, a progressive debate is difficult. Many had reservations on “India” and preferred “Bharat” or “Bharatvarsha”; finally “India, that is Bharat” is what was finally adopted as part of the constitution allowing for the usage of both. This Volume-1, begins with a long section (over 25 per cent of the book’s length) identifying what Bharatiyas need to combat.A mere acknowledgment (leave alone appreciation or assertion) of our indigenous Indic roots seems to trigger a fusillade of vitriol. Author says, "Decolonial school rejects the totalising universalist claims of Europeanism in a much more balanced fashion.

Quite early in the book, Sai Deepak will have introduced you to the acronym OET, that expands as ontology epistemology theology. The fact that Sai Deepak is an autodidact in so far as this sphere of knowledge goes, makes it all the more fascinating. We now have the vast majority of people who have sketchy knowledge of their own culture and read about it in English. Among these are the actual and saddening words of some members of our Constituent Assembly battling — and, failing — to keep ‘Bharat’ as the sole name for the new state; the Papal Bull of 1493 that so generously offered the world to Portugal and Spain to carve up between themselves; potted histories of the 30-year war, the Treaty of Westphalia, the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations. Even as the League of Nations was readied for a 1919 launch, the MontFord Reforms of 1918 had flattered India to become a founding member of it, an honour with, as it turned out, a crown of thorns.I'll take slavery to Jesus Christ over being part of a misogynistic demon worshiping false religion any day. 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.

It was this sense of superiority, which the European coloniser treated as both a divinely ordained right and scientific fact, that led to the creation of racial hierarchies the world over. This debauched caricature of Brahminism and Brahmins was even categorised under an esoteric term ‘priestcraft’. Colonisation is a process by which the people of one nation establish colonies in other societies while retaining their bonds with the parent nation, and exploit the colonised societies to benefit the parent nation and themselves.He goes on to explain in great detail what is decoloniality, it's methods of working, it's desired outcomes and its effect on society.