India, that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

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The author then moves on to explain how the colonizer could dislodge awareness of one’s roots from the minds of Indian ‘heathens’. The education policy of Britain was heavily tinted by the evangelical hue where the missionaries were assigned the task of teaching the children of other faiths seemingly secular topics. The evangelists always dangled the carrot of conversion as a way of uplifting the natives through plum jobs in the colonial administration. On the other hand, the government wanted to produce a generation of people ‘Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect’. We have to accept that the colonizer achieved what he targeted. Colonial education annihilated a society’s belief in itself. It made the colonized people see their past as one vast wasteland of non-achievement and it made them desirous of distancing themselves from that wasteland. European coloniality was directly responsible for disrupting the sacred relationship between indigenous peoples and nature, the destruction of their faith, language, political and social structures and knowledge – in short, their entire culture. The Christian tenet that placed man at the centre of creation brought in the idea of nature as just a resource for exploitation. The world is still witnessing the dreadful aftereffects of carrying this idea too far. James Mill's characterization of Indian History includes assumptions of Hindoos in Chapters so and so, Mill's accounts misrepresents Hindoos, here's why? This is a book you will keep returning to refer in the coming decade. Whether or not you want or like, you will be pushed to take a position. I believe this volume and the two to come, will offer you wise counsel.

Author says, "Decolonial school rejects the totalising universalist claims of Europeanism in a much more balanced fashion. That is, instead of treating the European position as the sole universal benchmark, decoloniality prefers to treat it as but one of the options or subjectivities within the global pool of thought. Therefore, it rejects Europe’s monopoly over time, space and subjectivity." We are then exposed to the nature of colonization and how it affected the consciousness of our people to such an extent that the only way the native felt they could redeem their dignity was by "adopting European culture and thought processes". It made them forget and detest their own roots and made them think of their past and history as a colossal failure, thus undermining their self-confidence. The entire colonization process aims at universalizing and standardizing ways of life instead of allowing the diversity of different groups and societies to flourish.The British, Sai Deepak argues, proceeded to systematically promulgate a series of statutes and legislations, which while outwardly positing a veneer of liberalism, were in fact devious mechanisms to strip the last vestiges of indigeneity characterizing the fabric of pre-Independence India. Even after Independence, the burnished language of colonialism remained intact. Justifying the encroachment into Indian land and usurpation of sacred Indian territory by the adventurous Chinese, the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, incredulously remarked that the land occupied by the Chinese was where not a single blade of grass grew and constituted territory that was useless and uninhabitable. There cannot be a more searing example of the sacred land ontology being elided out of the human consciousness. Henry David Thoreau writes in his book Wild Apples ‘It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple-tree is connected with that of man’. If you replace the apple tree with ‘colony’ and man with ‘colonial power’ there emerges and idiom for much of the world’s history itself. For no former colony, however long its freedom may have been sustained, has truly recovered from the hangover of colonial rule. British rule cast such a weight on India’s socio-cultural spine that even seventy-five years after Independence we are irretrievably coiled in some way or the other with leftovers of this foreign invasion of our land, and most crucially, our minds. Lawyer and thinker J Sai Deepak in his book India, that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution argues that while the colonisation of the Indian landscape may have been reversed, the minds continue to be possessed, and ultimately handicapped by a historical narrative that the outsider set for us. 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. It will have equipped itself with a single book to serve its epistemological needs and a single drill for its ritual routines. On whether you feel enriched by the breadth and depth of the OET you are heir to, or find it retrograde, depends your vulnerability to coloniality.

c. Instead, what he could do is to bring wide perspective, show how, "De-colonial perspective" is more historically rooted According to decolonialism, post-colonialism gives the impression that the colonial mindset ended with the departure of the colonial power, when, in fact, it survives and continues to impact decolonised independent societies. According to the author, decolonialism scholarship emanated from Latin America, which has contributed significantly to the understanding of coloniality and the response to it. COLONISATION is described as "Process by which people belonging to a nation establish colonies in other societies while retaining their bonds with the parent nation, and exploits the colonized societies to benefit the parent nation and themselves" and COLONIALITY as "Fundamental element or though process that informs the policy of colonialism and advances the subtler end goal of colonization, namely colonization of the mind through complete domination of the culture and worldview of the colonized society" Many laws and Acts passed by the British may sound liberal today but they also suppress indigenous systems. 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. Thus he suggests that decoloniality should rediscover Indian history through an Indian consciousness.Finally there is postcolonialism, which is the acme of a colonial project’s success. It happens when enough of the conquered minds begin to consciously propagate the colonial cause.



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