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India that is Bharat

Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

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India that is Bharat

Written by: J Sai Deepak
Narrated by: Sagar Arya
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Bloomsbury presents India that is Bharat by J Sai Deepak, read by Sagar Arya.

India, That Is Bharat, the first book of a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of European ‘colonial consciousness’ (or ‘coloniality’), in particular its religious and racial roots, on Bharat as the successor state to the Indic civilisation and the origins of the Indian Constitution. It lays the foundation for its sequels by covering the period between the Age of Discovery, marked by Christopher Columbus’ expedition in 1492, and the reshaping of Bharat through a British-made constitution—the Government of India Act of 1919. This includes international developments leading to the founding of the League of Nations by Western powers that tangibly impacted this journey.

Further, this work also traces the origins of seemingly universal constructs such as ‘toleration’, ‘secularism’ and ‘humanism’ to Christian political theology. Their subsequent role in subverting the indigenous Indic consciousness through a secularised and universalised Reformation, that is, constitutionalism, is examined. It also puts forth the concept of Middle Eastern coloniality, which preceded its European variant and allies with it in the context of Bharat to advance their shared antipathy towards the Indic worldview. In order to liberate Bharat’s distinctive indigeneity, ‘decoloniality’ is presented as a civilisational imperative in the spheres of nature, religion, culture, history, education, language and, crucially, in the realm of constitutionalism.©2022 J Sai Deepak (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Colonialism & Post-Colonialism Constitutions Political Science Politics & Government
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Critic Reviews

J. Sai Deepak has begun something here that needs serious attention. It also suggests that significant support is required to develop its proposals further in directions not yet explored. I hope the book will be read and debated widely, especially in and for the sake of the ‘India that is Bharat’.
Through this magisterial trilogy, advocate and scholar J. Sai Deepak successfully fills a huge vacuum in the corpus of decolonial scholarship from a uniquely empathetic Indian perspective. In a masterful manner, Sai Deepak traces the global history of colonialism, India’s unfortunate tryst with it and, importantly, inquires its impact on the emergence of a colonial consciousness. 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.
Advocate J. Sai Deepak has provided India with a milestone: a step from superficial to integral decolonization. Few combine the vision of a civilisational liberation, easy to invoke in malleable cultural respects, with the exacting juridical knowledge needed for a precise and workable paradigm shift deconstructing this lingering submission.
The wealth of evidence the author marshals in support of his arguments is truly impressive and reflects the rigour of his study. I have no doubt that India that is Bharat will be a welcome addition to the nascent corpus of literature in this specialist field. That it has emerged from India is a bonus.I wish the book and its author all the success in getting the recognition it deserves.
The book is a must-read for everyone who is interested in understanding the relationship between the consciousness of the world’s oldest surviving indigenous civilisation and the Constitution of the world’s largest democracy.
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Legal language was bit tough connecting wrt to sections in the British constitution, However I had thoroughly enjoyed how a particular group of people are being targeted to get close to the large masses of India

Good summary based on the Indic way of life from the lens of westerners perspective

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Sai Deepak delves into meticulous detail on the origins of coloniality and its vice-like grip on political and administrative affairs in Bharat, originating from the Christianization of education in the 1830s to the Constitution of India act 1919. It is also important to note that Bharat has been subject to 2 forms of colonization - the first was Middle Eastern Muslim Colonization from 1000 AD to 1700 AD and the second was European Christian colonization from 1800 to 1947. Both have left their mark on the civilisation of Bharat and continue to have a subiotic relationship in the modern era, a fact covered excellently by the author and explained threadbare in its machinations.

Excellent research and scholarship

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