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India, that is Bharat book review: J Sai Deepak makes pressing arguments about colonialism

In the book, J Sai Deepak 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.

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.

Deepak, firstly, is not new to the limelight. He has argued some landmark cases often from the unpopular side of the debate including siding by the temple’s ritualistic right to deny women entry in the Sabarimala temple case. Deepak’s position that ‘the deity too should be able to assert its rights’ had caught the attention of the country in the landmark case. Deepak turns author for this sizeable book that is the first in a trilogy exploring various subjects related to the Indic civilizational history and its immediate anxieties. In India, that is Bharat , Deepak explores the underpinnings of the idea of Bharat, by first travelling into history to excavate the corrosion of the idea, then as lawyers do, offering evidence of its sustenance and subsequently paving the way for a decolonised interpretation of the constitution.

The first half of the book traces the history of the Indian conscience as it was bruised and moulded by the intervention of the foreign. Deepak makes fairly accurate assertions that his critics perhaps can’t argue against. The writer suggests that ever since Christopher Columbus’ travels, the notional wisdom has been to consider “European history as the history of humanity”. Not only has this notion robbed others of agency, it has delegitimised the existence of the indigenous and the right of the indigenous people to assert their cultures. Deepak also suggests that ‘coloniality’ isn’t just the tangible occupation of land and resources but ‘a mindset that underpins or drives colonialism’. The repression of indigenous belief, the mere craving to voice native principles, Deepak argues, has begun to be seen as ‘illiberal’ compared to countries elsewhere, where it is celebrated as a sight of courage and agency.

Deepak also attempts to debunk the common argument that the idea of India as a nation state did not exist before the mutiny of 1857. That there existed a rough outline of ‘the civilisation state’ that was clinically, greedily operated upon by the intruder’s mindset. This mindset, Deepak believes, is for all its posturing of modernism and progressiveness a ‘Christian exercise’. Nobody can really argue the religious inspirations for Columbus’ missions and the British government’s casual insertion of missionary ideas into the Indian social curriculum. Deepak’s arguments about the existence and therefore pending reclamation of indigenous consciousness, of an ‘Indic civilization,’ are appealing in terms of ideas and can to some extent even be corroborated. Often the evidence of what existed can be found in what was being systematically wiped out.

Deepak also argues that a number of laws and acts passed by the British government can sound liberal in the modern context, but were actually repressive to the potency of indigenous life that not only wished to thrive but perhaps even threatened the colonial purview. This ‘façade of neutrality,’ Deepak believes, was a ‘Christian neutrality’ insofar as the means of achieving their own ‘missions’ could meet the intended ends. “The word secular must always be understood as Christian secular,” Deepak writes. The writer suggests that ‘decoloniality’ has to be discovered as much as it is waiting to be asserted in ways that can re-hinge the understanding of this history and the present of this country through an Indic context.

Because his law background guides his writing, large parts of Deepak’s book are admittedly written with the bureaucratic tone of a Supreme Court Order. At some point you can feel the weight of the words squishing the simpler implications of what is being said. Because these are largely arguments, Deepak’s book provides substantial room for thought on both sides. There is no denying the religious motivations of the British mission but is majoritarianism the only viable replacement? Shouldn’t the means also adapt to the times, the globalised times so to speak? Also, granted European idealism perpetuated for the benefit of their imperial projects, are certain aspects in them not worth emulating? These are just some questions that arise in what is a rewarding and interesting take on India’s history, decoloniality and its implications for the asset we all prize above anything else – the constitution.

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Book Review: ‘India That is Bharat’. Breaking Out of the Postcolonial Rut

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“India that is Bharat” does not just crib and complain, it charts a path for the restoration of our subjectivity and cultural and civilizational agency, says Saumya Dey in his review of the book by J. Sai Deepak.

Saumya Dey, Associate Professor of History, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.

“India that is Bharat” extensively documents the Christian evangelical intent of British colonialism in India, quoting several acts passed by the British parliament along with the protestations of MPs. We see that the essentially Christian worldview that underlay the colonial state informed its apprehension of Indian society and culture. For instance, the British derision for Brahmins evoked the Protestant distaste for the Catholic priesthood; apparently, the Brahmins were seen as its equivalent.

Similarly, we find that the colonial state approached Hinduism through an essentially Christian framework. It took a “doctrinal and scriptural” approach” towards Hinduism and tolerated only those practices which enjoyed textual sanction, the rest were termed superstition and immorality “warranting State interference.”

The far-reaching implication of this observation by Mr. Deepak is that many state backed reformist attempts in India might actually hearken to coloniality. As it winds to its conclusion, India that is Bharat contends that the constitutional development of India occurred within a Christian framework too. Mr. Deepak studies the many Government of India Acts that were passed between 1858 and 1919-20 and points out that they demonstrated a Christian intent. The Constituent Assembly of India thus “consciously or unconsciously” operated within the colonial OET.

In my view, J. Sai Deepak has emancipated us from the rut that postcolonial thought has become. India that is Bharat does not just crib and complain, it charts a path for the restoration of our subjectivity and cultural and civilizational agency. It does so with its simple yet powerful message – ‘that colonialism and coloniality were expressions of an ideology and worldview informed by Christianity and the legal and constitutional discourse of a postcolonial, non-Western state form such as India are still colored by it’.

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India That is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution by J Sai Deepak – Book Review

India tha is Bharat J Sai Deepak Book Review

I have not put my faith in Ashwin Sanghi ‘s concept of history being more stranger than fiction until now. After coming across the ‘opinions’ like Yudhishthir getting inspiration from Ashoka, and Ravana’s Dalit identity, my romance with history started. I began looking for the history behind the history we read. This search led me to many books, authors, and alarming discoveries. J Sai Deepak’s book, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution, is one of the milestones in my journey. (I know it’s a milestone in the author’s journey as well.)

A simple (and loathsome) deconstruction of the book’s title can mislead the readers in several directions the book does not intend them to go. Yes, it is about many things that the colonisation of our country brought. However, the book deals with many concepts that many popular books have decided to leave in oblivion. J Sai Deepak’s book attacks the very interpretation of India from a colonial, post-colonial or even decolonial lens. He points out that scholars from the West interpreted everything about India from a Christian perspective. The author does not write anything solely based on his intellectual disposal. (That would also stand justified because of the scholarship and persuasion prowess of the author.) J Sai Deepak pits philosophers and intellectuals from the West against their contemporaries, predecessors and successors. Though one can raise questions about this ploy by the author, it also exposes the hollowness of the intellectual sphere of the day. We cannot help pass any opinion of repute unless that gets approval by some guy from the West.

There are three sections in the book – Coloniality, Civilisation, and Constitution. A reader will find grave details, historical mistakes in collecting information, exposition of the European hypocrisy and many other things in the first section, spread across five chapters. The second section contains four chapters, and the final has two.

Whether you stand on this or that side of the line that we know as a differentiator between ideologies, you will have to accept the scholarship of this author is not in the league of commons. J Sai Deepak exposes many historical myths that the European historians and those inspired by them and the Marxist ideology created about Indians. From the Aryan race theory to the ‘tribes’ of Jharkhand, the concept of ‘castes’ to the pressing need to spread the Gospel, the author has exposed these hidden secrets that forcefully cancel many mythical ideas embedded in Indian history hitherto.

“Further, in 1659, the directors of the Company were clear that it was ‘their earnest desire by all possible means to spread Christianity among the people of India’, which led to missionaries being allowed to travel to Bharat on the Company’s ships.” (Deepak, 2021: 325)

There are many things that this book brings to light. The author has not spared any myth that has acquired a grand status in our history books. One by one, he navigates through the years of the colonial era and decrypts the episodes of importance.

However, this book does have its limitations, as many history books have. It is long, might sound boring and may seem lacklustre to readers who are not into reading lengthy arguments. The author is a lawyer. (Just informing.)

J Sai Deepak’s book is for the readers who take an interest in knowing the alternate, emphatics and the other side of the history of the colonial era. The book will offer forceful arguments, significant citations, persuasive evidence – everything like a trial in the courtroom where readers are the jury and the judge. The author presents a persuasive case for Indians who are all-in to prove that the British era destroyed Bharat and turned it into India. He has touched upon the significant episodes of the colonial years that many Indic scholars blame for the erosion of the Bharatiya ethos and civilisational consciousness – Macaulay, Missionaries, Marxism, destruction of the relation between Hindus and nature, and toxic indoctrination into the minds of several Hindu varnas (including many others you will find in the book).

To critically sum up what I found otherwise in the book, I would name its length, the package distribution and the lengths of some of the chapters. Everything else is in perfect harmony that a famous and bestselling book needs! J Sai Deepak’s India that is Bharat is a must-read title, by all means, for those who want to understand what went wrong.

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looking forward for a book on What INDIA would have been MINUS THE COLONISATION from this author, for that could sum up his suppressed emotions and motives

Very well written book review… It’s good to see that many Indian authors are coming forward with their research and ideas in the area of Indian history.

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The author argues how the colonial mindset continues to impact decolonised independent societies.

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Title: India that is Bharat — Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

Author: J Sai Deepak Publisher: Bloomsbury India

Price: ₹799

This is the first book of a trilogy where the author explores the roots and influence of European colonialism on the Indian state of Bharat. 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 defines four forms of colonialism: exploitative colonialism, settler colonialism, surrogate colonialism and internal colonialism, the first two being the best-known. By ‘coloniality’, he refers to the thought process that advances the goal of colonisation, namely colonisation of the mind through complete domination of the culture of the colonised society. Of all the sources and forms of colonialism and coloniality the world has witnessed, none equals the Western European version of imperialism, which is seen as the descendant of and the successor to European colonialism.

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.

The author traces the origins of Eurocentrism to ‘the Age of Discovery/Exploration’ in the 15th century, when Christopher Columbus set out in 1492 to ‘discover’ the ‘New World’. This was the beginning of European colonisation. This volume ends in 1919, when the British gave India a constitution — the Government of India Act of 1919, 84 years after Macaulay introduced his education policy. This was also the year when the League of Nations was formed, which was a cosy club of European nations which ruled most of the world. The Asian experience could impact the way colonialism, coloniality and decoloniality are perceived.

While both North and South America and nearly half of Africa have been converted to the religion of the European colonisers, this is not the case with the former colonies in Asia. In contrast, the precolonial faith systems in several Asian countries, such as India or Bharat, makes them ‘living indigenous civilisations’ to a significant extent.

This is an important difference since the scholarship of decolonialism, while being aware of the theological origins of European coloniality, appears to focus primarily on its racial aspects in the Americas and Africa. In contrast, the post-colonial societies of Asia, while retaining their indigenous faiths, have, according to the author, permitted their minds to be colonised through language, education and Western-inspired constitutions.

Regressive laws

According to Sai Deepak, the so-called liberal laws and Acts passed by the British were actually regressive towards indigenous systems which were threatening to the colonisers. The so-called neutrality of the British constitution and the separation of the church and the state were Christian ideas that were used to achieve their own goals. Thus decoloniality requires an understanding of the colonial period and its continuation in modern India must change to an Indian point of view, says the author.

Secularism was artificially imposed on India, although the law in England assumed that Christianity was the only true religion and the king or queen was the ‘Defender of the Faith’. The book traces the origin of words such as tolerance, secularism and humanism to Christian political thought and finds that they were utilised to subvert indigenous ideas through a constitution that was apparently secular and universal, yet anti-Indic.

He also suggests that the coloniality of the middle-eastern conquerors who preceded the British shared the aversion to Indic religions, which were regarded as pagan. Thus, he says, decolonisation of the mind is essential to detach the Indian Constitution in the areas of nature, religion, culture, history, education and language. Importantly, he believes that thinking in the colonial language influences the mind towards coloniality.

Deepak disproves the argument that India as a nation state did not exist before the mutiny of 1857. This is very true since as early as the Mauryan period, India stretched from Afghanistan to South India. He states that nobody can argue against the religious inspirations for Columbus’ missions and the British government’s inclusion of missionary ideas into Indian society. His arguments about the existence and therefore pending reclamation of the indigenous consciousness of an Indic civilisation are appealing in terms of ideas.

Suppress indigenous systems

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.

Sai Deepak is a lawyer who has taken up some very prominent cases, such as representing the deity of Sabarimala. As a constitutional lawyer in the Supreme Court, he presents the arguments both for and against the proposition and finds the solution in the indigenisation of the Constitution. There is no doubt that many of our acts and laws are totally outdated and definitely require much modification, and the author has presented the British acts and the Indian response/rebellion against most.

However, while the British colonisation of India was undoubtedly for the sole purpose of commerce and denuding the country and all its resources for the benefit of the parent nation, let us not forget that the English language opened up a world of new ideas and great scientific developments which are worth following.

There has to be something that guides our country, and that is the Constitution of India. However, the Constitution cannot be static and the very fact that there have been 105 amendments of the Constitution since it was enacted in 1950 (including the very first amendment in 1951 itself) means the Constitution will grow and change along with the nation.

We are very proud of our past and the great achievements of our mathematicians and scientists. But let us also remember that we forgot the existence of the democratic and republican institutions of ancient India, of the Arthashastra, Ashoka and Aryabhatta, and had to be retaught our history by the colonial power.

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India’s medieval and colonial history and its journey towards a constitutional entity have always been told through a specific perspective, keeping in line with the Nehruvian-Marxist ideology that gained currency in the wake of India’s independence and which wielded a monopolistic influence on the literature produced since August 1947. Very few authors have ventured to challenge the leftist narrative, much less provide a scholarly exposition of calling out the obvious bias in India’s history-telling and its deep-rooted contempt for its civilisational history and evolution.

J Sai Deepak, through being richly persuasive and in possession of unmatched scholarship, brings a stirring and edifying take on topics hitherto pushed into oblivion: how coloniality continues to influence contemporary consciousness among Indians, the urgent need to embrace decoloniality as our first steps towards reclaiming civilisational identity, the impact of the combination of European and Middle Eastern coloniality on native consciousness, and its consequent influence on India’s partition movement, its evolution towards a constitutional entity, and how it continues to inform contemporary consciousness in post-independence India.

In the first two books of the trilogy: ‘ India, that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution ‘ and ‘ India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation ‘, JSD takes on the path less travelled, expounding how the concept of “coloniality” extends beyond the physical occupation of land and exploitation of resources and is a product of a deep-seated mindset that fuels colonialism. He traces the individual and combined impact of European consciousness through British rule and the Middle East consciousness through centuries of Muslim rule on the Indic consciousness, their role in shaping India’s constitutional journey, and the bloody partition of the country.

In his book “India, that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution,” J Sai Deepak, a lawyer and thinker, contends that although the colonisation of India’s geographical terrain may have been undone, its people’s minds are still under the influence and constrained by a historical narrative imposed upon them by outsiders, referred by him as ‘coloniality’. Deepak argues that coloniality is so deeply ingrained in the psyche of an average Indian, chiefly through the inheritance of the educational system bequeathed by the coloniser, that the native consciousness, even after seven decades of independence, is still a product of a colonial mindset and informed by western ideals and principles.

He presents a compelling case of how a majority section of Indians are still prisoners of the subconscious colonialism that continues to inform their beliefs and notions, explaining how suppression of indigenous beliefs and the mere desire to express native principles are increasingly labelled as “illiberal” in comparison to other countries where such expressions are celebrated as acts of courage and agency.

In ‘India, That is Bharat’, Deepak takes on the role of an intrepid explorer. His quest leads him to the very core of the idea of Bharat, where he immerses himself in an exploration of its fundamental underpinnings. Starting with a deep dive into historical accounts, he unearths the gradual corrosion that has plagued this concept throughout the ages.

With his profound knowledge of the legal realm, Deepak marshals persuasive evidence to highlight the enduring nature of Bharat. Armed with his findings, he sets out to carve a path towards a decolonised interpretation of the Constitution. His aim is to rectify distortions and breathe new life into the true essence of Bharat, restoring its authenticity and reclaiming its rightful place.

Among few of the most momentous things uncovered in the book is Deepak’s attempt at dismantling the widely held belief that the notion of India as a nation-state did not exist prior to the 1857 mutiny. He presents that India had a ‘civilisational identity’ long before the advent of European colonisers and Middle East invaders on its shores. He professes that there was a rudimentary framework of a “civilization state” that was systematically and rapaciously exploited by an invasive mindset. JSD asserts that the religious motivations behind Columbus’ missions and the British government’s casual infusion of missionary ideas into the Indian social fabric are difficult to refute, and are damning evidence of the British’s imperial conquest of India being guided by the ‘Christian Exercise’.

He goes on to cite various instances when the European and Middle East consciousness asserted itself—from the interference of the Church in India’s daily affairs to the two-nation theory propounded by the likes of Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Syed Ahmed Khan, Syed Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, and other subsequent Muslim ideologues—which played a massive role in suppressing India’s civilisational identity and supplanting it with imported notions of ‘Nation States’ and ‘pan-Islamism’.

His second book, ‘India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation’, charts a path exploring the combined influence of European and Middle Eastern consciousness on India’s Constitutional evolution. The author effectively debunks the concept of the two-nation theory as a 19th-century phenomenon, highlighting how a pan-Islamist ideologue Shah Waliullah Dehlawi was among the first progenitors of the notion that Muslims constitute a separate nation—a belief taken forward by many others, including Syed Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Syed Ahmed Khan, and subsequent Muslim League leaders such as MA Jinnah, Raja of Mahmudabad, Syed Salimullah—built on the idea that engendered pan-Islamism among Indian Muslims and effectively led to India’s partition.

Sai Deepak’s distinctiveness among previous authors who have tackled this subject lies in his original thinking, which unveiled the true origins of the Two-Nation theory, tracing it back to the decline of the powerful Mughal Empire in India. Following its disintegration, Islamic scholars sought solace by returning to the fundamental principles of their religion and striving to revive it. During this period, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi emerged as a prominent cleric who espoused the intolerant doctrines of Wahhabism, which he had encountered during his time in Arabia.

Shah Waliullah urged the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent not to assimilate into society, as he believed that contact with Hindus would taint their Islamic purity. He encouraged them to perceive themselves as part of the global Ummah, the religious community and mandated adherence to the customs and traditions of the Prophet. While he allowed the Shias to observe their festivals publicly, albeit with strict moderation, Hindu infidels were denied even this modest privilege. Waliullah harboured such animosity towards his homeland, India, that he invited the Afghan warlord Ahmed Shah Durrani to invade the country and teach the non-Muslims a lesson. In his letter, he provided a detailed assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the Marathas and Jats. This laid the foundation for the sprouting of the Two-Nation theory in India.

JSD provides a context of the partition of India by explaining in detail the sequence of events that led to the partition of Bengal, which he describes as the earliest manifestation of the two-nation theory in the early nineteenth century. The author busts the popularly held belief that Bengal’s partition was a result of Britain’s ‘Divide and Rule’ policy, highlighting how Muslim ideologues, including Muslim League leaders, vociferously demanded the partition of the state in such a manner so as to turn the erstwhile Bengali Hindu majority into minority and achieve Muslim dominance.

The author also demolishes another myth popularised by Nehruvian historians that Hindu-Muslim unity existed long before the Britishers took control of India and it became the first casualty of Britain’s ‘Divide and Rule’ policy. However, that was not the case, and Hindu-Muslim riots predated Europeans and were a source of constant problems for several Mughal rulers, right from Akbar to Bahadur Shah Zafar. The Hindu-Muslim dissension obviously aggravated during the British period, owing to the colonial policy of pitting one community against the other, however, Deepak argues that the race-conscious Britishers’ overt support to the Muslims, whom they considered to be closer to the Christians being the people of the book, to blunt the numerical superiority of more educated and highly rebellious Hindus, deepened the fissures between the two communities.

However, the Hindu and Muslim leaders did come together to fulfil their individual goals and put up a pretence of interfaith harmony to extract better bargains from their colonial overlords. Deepak explains that while Hindus had the realisation of self-government in mind, the Muslims, on the other hand, wanted a communal electorate in a democratic form of government proposed to be introduced in the country, with a higher proportion of seats reserved in every province of the country compared to their numerical strength.

The interfaith harmony, Deepak avers, was a mirage, as the Hindu-Muslim unity always remained contingent upon Hindus relinquishing their beliefs and objections to practices such as cow slaughter, and their attempts to overthrow the British yoke, since the former offended the religious sentiments of the Muslims while the latter would result in Muslims living in a Hindu-majority India.

Even the Congress party, which claimed to be secular, collaborated with the deeply communal Muslim League, agreeing with the latter’s problematic demand of separate electorates for Muslims and standing beside the League for its demand to release the Ali brothers in the period between 1916 to 1917, who would later go on to spearhead the Khilafat movement that saw large-scale anti-Hindu riots across India, including the infamous Moplah Genocide , when 38 Hindus were slaughtered and thrown in a well by Muslim mob demanding a Caliphate in Malabar.

Here again, Deepak reveals another truth bomb that Gandhi alone was not responsible for shaping Congress’ policy towards appeasing Muslims and strengthening pan-Islamist sentiments among the Muslims. Even before Gandhi arrived on the scene and became a ‘force to reckon with’, Congress was favourably disposed toward the Muslim League, including its ‘Extremist’ leaders such as Tilak, Anni Besant, and Pal, beseeching the British to release the Ali brothers and passing resolutions in support to the Ottoman Caliphate that was in the decline, especially in the wake of the Balkan Wars, when the four Balkan states: Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bulgaria, declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and emerged victorious, resulting in the Ottoman Empire losing its European provinces.

JSD also presents the craven role assumed by the Congress party, which went to great lengths to make common ground with the Muslim League and attain the chimera of Hindu-Muslim unity, agreeing to their every demand without receiving commensurate benefits in return, while being equally submissive if not more towards the British, imbibing the coloniser’s worldview with the belief that India did not have a bright and prosperous future without the ‘benevolent’ presence of the British colonisers.

Drawing on historical records and accounts to reproduce speeches and public statements from both prominent and not-so-prominent leaders of the time, including opinions of the British Viceroys and Secretary of State to India, discussions in the British Parliament, correspondences exchanged between British rulers and their Indian counterparts, and so on, the book provides a deeper insight into the Indian history as against the reductionist and one-dimensional version peddled by the Nehruvian-Marxist historian post India’s independence.

JSD’s second book delves into the events spanning from 1905 to 1924, effectively setting the groundwork for the third book of the trilogy. In this forthcoming instalment, the author will carefully examine historical incidents that profoundly influenced the destiny of the Indian subcontinent as we recognise it today. These include the emergence of irreconcilable differences between the Muslim League and the Congress party, as well as the culmination of the constant subjugation of Indic consciousness by the combined forces of European and Middle Eastern colonialism, the lingering impact of these events continues to shape the thought process of contemporary India.

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So i will just directly get into the contents of the book

Colonisation ,Colonialism,Coloniality and Decoloniality :Language

Talks about the definitions and their differences which is important to understand as sai uses it explain his case regarding the sabrimala case to put forward the idea of what is "traditional" and what is "modern".

There is line about how can an institution whose job is to follow it's tradition can be criticised for being traditional?. The understanding of the terms like Christian secularism, age of discovery, New world were eye opening on how they just used language to seem the world before their "voyage" was in dark gallows and they needed to save them.

The lack of voices in our history books from the countries who also suffered from colonialism like the african nations and latin american countries were especially highlighted. Those voices are knowingly shunned so that they cant find the similarity of their suffering and identify them uniquely.

9/10. Absolutely captivating, could have avoided long sentences as it makes the point dilute.

2. Coloniality, Indigenous faiths, Nature and Knowledge

this part was amazingly written on how european and middle eastern colonialiasm think of themselves as above nature and wants to protect it while exploiting it rather than be part of it and take care of it. The movie Kantara shows this aspect so well about the indic systems considering themselves as part of nature and be protected by it.

Sai has quoted quijano,Wynter and Nelson Maldonado -Torres a lot and explored their ideas about how the ideas of "rational", "objective", "reason" were just an attempt to make people feel disconnected to their surroundings leading to almost a sense of superiority, taking thoughts without regard to nature, people and identity doesn't seem "reasonable" if the point is to actually progress and not exploitation.

This indigenous nature-man relationship aspect was common acroos europe, latin america and african countries along with the natives in america just like it was in India. The similarity of fate received tells the common ideological colonising mechanism that was employed in those places.

8/10. Quotes and proofs of colonisers writing about their intentions were amazing but it did lack a bit of coherent attitude towards the intention of the chapter as it tried to cover coloniality from foreign post colonial society mostly (proof and sources wise) and then connect the dots to the indic systems.

3. Entrenchment of Coloniality through European Political Structures

this is the section where sai explains how the political structures played the most important role in creating a social fabric of Indic ideology to systematically look down on themselves and accepting exploitation as a necessary evil to become like their overlords. Basically the process and mechanism to produce, award and propagate brown sahebs.

A little para quoted by sai from Radha Kumud Mookerji's The fundamental unity of India later in the book which explains exactly how Indian socio-political scenario was previous to the colonisers getting here.

It is the quasi Instinctive postulates and conventions of group life which come to be formulated as law and not the mandate ,command,or decree of a single ,central authority in the state. Law,under these conditions is not an artifice but a natural growth of consensus and communal life. Thus ever new social and political constructions arise by the original and direct action of the groups and communities in the state and not by the intervention of the absolute sovereign power and its creative fiats as under all centralised constitutions. The nationality formed on such principles is a composite and not one of the rigid,unitary type. The relation of the state of its constituent groups becomes,under this scheme, one of co-partnership each maintaining their place.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED TO READ, THE UNDERSTANDING OF ASSIMILATION FROM BOTTOM UP APPROACH RATHER THAN DIVERSITY BEING DUMPED TOP DOWN.

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Book Review: Islamism leading to partition

‘political islam in india : origins, strategy and mobilization’ documents the biggest holocaust of 20th century - the hindu genocide and the tumultuous events leading to partition. it also exposes congress’s role in being mute spectator when hindus were massacred.

The great scholar, academician and author, Prof SV Seshagiri Rao brings out this seminal volume on Islamic politics in India titled Political Islam In India: Origins, Strategy And Mobilization , which depicts dispassionately and clinically all the facts pertaining to the tumultuous decades of late 19th and 20th centuries’ British India.

In this comprehensive work, Prof Seshagiri Rao explains the very origins, strategies and methods employed by political Islam in India not only for the capture of political power, but also in establishing the street- power in terms of unleashing violence on the streets. The work’s detailed focus starts from the mid-19th century, especially the Aligarh phenomenon, the interplay of Muslim politics from Curzon’s partition of Bengal, the communal electorate, the Khilafat, and the power-play with the Congress party. This 450-page book details the biggest holocaust of the 20th century – the Hindu genocide, and Muslim League’s hegemonic power, the tumultuous events leading to the tragic Partition, and the impunity with which Pakistan created the Jammu & Kashmir conflict. Throughout, this book speaks about how British India officers were closed to Muslim League, the perfidy of Mountbatten and the inept Congress party are exposed.

The chapters like ‘Pakistan Resolution’, ‘Islamists Finest Hour’, ‘The Volcano Erupts’, ‘Political Islam Triumphs’ of this book reveal the horrors of Partition in detailed account. The massacres of millions of Hindus and Sikhs, rapes and abduction of women, and girls and converting them into sex slaves. In numerous cases, women either opted for voluntary suicide or were killed by their family members to save them from rapes and abductions from Muslim gangs. The passenger trains destined to Amritsar were filled with dead bodies of Hindus. The stories of rampant looting and killing of Hindus awaiting for trains at any big or small railway stations on the Pakistani side were horrific. The author meticulously mentions the records of those massive killings. The temporary shelter camps on the roads, on the river bridges, and the trains filled with dead bodies and blood-stained coaches reveal the barbarism unleashed by Islamic forces. The migration of people on foot and bullock carts, where only a minor fraction reached Eastern Punjab or the Indian borders, makes for harrowing and heart-wrenching reading. One of the world’s largest migrations of people was witnessed, in this the Hindus were abandoned and thrown to vultures by British officers who were supposed to provide protection. The safe journey of British officers and their families, in stark contrast to the trains filled with dead bodies, reveals how the colonial forces surrendered to political Islamic forces who were designers of Partition.

The book illustrates how `minority politics’ played out to such an extent in India. Hindus of India will rue forever on how and why they supported the Congress party which played its divisive agenda against the nation and Hindus

The Baluch military regiment of the Pakistan Army and the Pathan raiders mauled, raped, abducted, maimed, buried, and burned alive Hindus and Sikhs in lakhs. The following points are illustrative to get an idea of the scale of violence perpetrated. About one-third of the Army was made up of Muslim soldiers who deserted Kashmir units and joined the Muslim marauders from Pakistan. Col Hari Singh was killed by Muslim soldiers of his regiment while he was sleeping. Col. Rajinder Singh, Col. Ranjit Rai, and Major Somnath Sharma were martyred on the battlefield to save Srinagar. Hundreds of Swayamsevaks belonging to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) sacrificed their lives while helping fellows move to safer zones or board Amritsar-bound trains. In towns like Rajaouri, Hindus were killed by fellow Muslims, not by the Pakistani military. The jihadi state of Pakistan, supported by the jihadi police and British military officers, perpetrated inhuman massacres and violence at this gigantic scale, and which has no parallel in history, has been described in detail in the chapter Holocaust’.

The book clearly shows the voting patterns of Congress and the Muslim League in all elections held in the provinces, which ultimately went to Pakistan, both East and West. The book also clearly establishes how less than a quarter of the Muslim population, got more than 30 per cent of the share of land and other resources, 33 per cent of the military resources with enriched military establishments in Rawalpindi, Peshawar etc, and even more importantly the fertile and mighty Sindhu river and its tributaries.

This thought-provoking book also raises an argument about how the Muslim League always propagated that it was not a minority, but a nation, and their continuous efforts to have a separate nation due to political Islam. It illustrates how `minority politics’ played out to such an extent in India. Hindus of India will rue forever on how and why they supported the Congress party which played their divisive agenda against the nation and Hindus.

The readers may find the genocide of Hindus and Sikhs during pre and post-Partition and carefully erasing these historical chapters of horror out of public memory by the Govt in power for decades with the willing acquiescence of the media was unpardonable.

The generation of Indians who were adults in the 1950s-1960s in the North may have known about the massacres by political Islam. It is a shame that the Hindu-Sikh genocide has been ignored by successive Indian governments and the people. It can be understood that the descendants of the massacred, would have undergone unspeakable shock and trauma and wouldn’t speak about the genocide, but it doesn’t speak much about the people in the rest of the country.

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Review of The Rumbling Earth — The Story of Indian Earthquakes : Ground beneath India’s feet

A new book attempts to demystify earthquakes and explains why it’s so difficult to predict the next tremor.

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The earthquake of 2001 in Bhuj, Gujarat. | Photo Credit: Getty Images

It isn’t every day that one is in the middle of an earthquake and grateful for it. Arch Johnston, a seismologist with the University of Memphis, and a team of other specialists were in the Rann of Kutch, studying the aftermath of the 2001 earthquake in Bhuj, Gujarat, when another quake struck. “We saw Arch struggling to balance his tall frame, yet clapping his hands and laughing aloud and shouting ‘thank you’,” recount the scientists C.P. Rajendran and Kusala Rajendran in their book, The Rumbling Earth: The Story of Indian Earthquakes . Such anecdotes pepper this accessible, concise history of earthquakes, which is exceptional in that it comes from an Indian vantage.

A homeless family at a makeshift tent in Bhuj, Gujarat. | Photo Credit: Getty Images

Combining their decades-long scholarship, the book attempts to demystify earthquakes: What makes them hard to predict? Why are some regions more likely to be jolted than others? Is the loss of life and property inevitable in the wake of a tremblor? Can knowing the history of earthquakes in a region make forecasts of future ones more accurate? What are aftershocks, foreshocks, plate tectonics, P-waves and S-waves?

Students in Amritsar light candles to pray for Turkey following the 2023 earthquake. | Photo Credit: Getty Images

Mysterious ways

Answers to these questions are the meat of the book, dispelling some of the intrigue surrounding earthquakes. The basic principles of astronomy, biology, chemistry can be comprehended as their dramatis personae — the sun, moon, stars, plants animals, metals — are visible. The earth sciences are relatively mysterious because the action is underground and invisible and involves gargantuan bodies moving incrementally over aeons and prodding cataclysmic changes.

A woman collecting water from a tap near a collapsed wall of an apartment building in Guwahati, after a strong earthquake hit Assam in 2021. | Photo Credit: Getty Images

The unexpected jolt that can strike anytime, accompanied sometimes by death and devastation, is linked to the same forces that slowly nudged a large independent island near Antarctica, that we know today as the Indian subcontinent, to eventually ram into Eurasia and create the Himalayas.

Indian sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik’s sand sculpture on Puri beach, Bhubaneswar, following the earthquake in Turkey in 2023. | Photo Credit: Getty Images

Only in the decade that men landed on the moon did earth scientists conclusively establish the theory explaining these links. Continents and the oceans weren’t immobile and rested on ‘plates’ which were in constant motion and floating on a layer of molten rock. Plate tectonics, as this theory is called, also explains the formation of continents, volcanic activity, tsunamis and the intensity and timing of earthquakes. It is due to plate tectonics that India expects, with a sense of dread, a massive, Himalayan earthquake (or a couple of them) but whose exact timing and location unfortunately cannot be predicted. This was after a 2001 paper in the journal ‘Science’ by scientists Roger Bilham, Vinod Gaur and Peter Molnar calculated that there is a long 700 km segment along the Himalayan plate boundary that hasn’t produced a major earthquake in the last 500 years. Therefore, all the strain accumulated over the centuries will inevitably result in a displacement that will wreak “unparalleled damage” in several parts of north India, particularly the Gangetic plains. The Rajendrans describe their own excursions into the Himalayas to decipher evidence of past earthquakes.

A survivor searches for belongings amid the ruins of her damaged house following an earthquake in Nepal in 2023. | Photo Credit: Getty Images

Archaeoseismology, as this endeavour is called, involves studying ancient structures such as old temples or land formations that may reveal signs of past earthquakes and help estimate the probability of future ones.

The earthquake at Killari, Maharashtra, in 1993. | Photo Credit: Getty Images

Damage control

While the overwhelming number of earthquakes globally occur along the zones where the plates meet, there are other kinds too. For instance, the 1993 Killari earthquake in Maharashtra, or the Koyna earthquake in 1967, which has been linked to the filling up and emptying of a reservoir, are examples of significant earthquakes that are not linked to plate-boundary dynamics. While predicting major quakes remains a mystery globally, what’s better known is ways to minimise the scale of the damage.

Signs in Dichato, Chile, direct residents to tsunami evacuation routes. | Photo Credit: Getty Images

Chile, the book notes, is a country that is frequently rocked by massive earthquakes but reports minimal damage, thanks to the strict enforcement of building codes — a lesson that is by and large ignored in India’s construction ethos. India’s varied geography, geology and history suggests that many mysteries remain. Dr. Johnston, the Rajendrans say, probably jumped for joy because he got to experience a quake at the Rann of Kutch, a place significant in geological history. Not only was this great desert once a sprawling sea but in 1861 it was the site of an unusual earthquake that created a 2-4 km high bund, called the Allah bund, that till date stretches all the way to Pakistan.

Charles Lyell, the 19th century founding father of geology, described the discovery that a land surface could be deformed by earthquakes a “watershed moment in the history of geology.” Earth science practitioners must take up the task of sensitising the community about new developments in the field, the Rajendrans point out.

The Rumbling Earth: The Story of Indian Earthquakes ; C.P. Rajendran, Kusala Rajendran, Vintage/Penguin, ₹699.

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India, as one of the prominent leaders of the Global South, can play a crucial role in sharing best practices for improving health outcomes, Khosla in an exclusive interview told PTI.

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India vs sri lanka 3rd t20i highlights: india defeated sri lanka via the super over in the inconsequential third and final t20i in pallekele on tuesday to sweep the series 3-0..

India vs Sri Lanka 3rd T20I Highlights: India defeated Sri Lanka via the Super Over in the inconsequential third and final T20I in Pallekele on Tuesday to sweep the series 3-0. Kusal Perera (46, 34b) and Kusal Mendis (43, 41b) guided Lanka's chase of 138 before their innings fell apart in the familiar fashion at the business end. SL ended up at 137/8 after stipulated 20 overs, taking the match to Super Over. For India, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Rinku Singh and skipper Suryakumar Yadav took two wickets apiece. India needed just three runs to win in Super Over. Earlier, SL bowlers produced a tidy effort to restrict India to a modest 137/9. Spinners Wanindu Hasaranga and Maheesh Theekshana led the hosts' bowling, sharing five wickets between them, as only Shubman Gill showed some spunk with a 39 in the company of Riyan Parag (26). ( Scorecard )

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We are back for the Super Over, folks! Kusal Perera and Kusal Mendis walk out to bat for Sri Lanka. And it will be Washington Sundar to bowl those crucial 6 deliveries for India.

WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? THE MATCH HAS BEEN TIED AND A SUPER OVER WILL FOLLOW NOW. Sri Lanka will be absolutely gutted as around the 15th over, they were sitting right in the driver's seat. They needed 9 off the last 12 balls but they just couldn't cross the line in the end. But again, their middle order fell like a house of cards for the third straight time in the same series. And of course, India fought bravely, until the last drop of blood. And what a spectacular debut series is Suryakumar Yadav having as the skipper! Strengthening the saying that cricket is a funny old game, full of uncertainties.

SUPER OVER TIME! Not the best of throws from the deep and Maheesh Theekshana makes it in! More drama! SKY bowls it fuller and quicker, on off, Chamindu Wickramasinghe cross bats this one to the right of long on along the ground. The batters have to cross for the second and the throw from long on skids off the turf and SKY fails to collect it. Theekshana with a dive is in and thankfully for India, the throw is backed up, keeping it down to two to take the game to a Super Over.

1 ball remaining, 3 runs to win for Sri Lanka. Are we in for a super over? The way this game has twisted and turned, anything is a possibility now. All three results are possible at this point.

Oh, what happened there? SKY pushes it through, full and on middle, Chamindu Wickramasinghe slaps it down to the left of long off and the batters decide to take the second run. The throw comes in from the deep and Maheesh Theekshana is nowhere in the frame at the bowling end. SKY collects it over his head and can affect an easy run out at the bowling end but he is not aware of the situation and fires it to the batting end where Chamindu Wickramasinghe is in by then.

Tap and run! Asitha Fernando brings Chamindu Wickramasinghe on strike. Speared in, short and on middle, Asitha Fernando drops it with soft hands on the leg side and scampers across for one.

Who walks in next? Asitha Fernando is in at number 10. Sri Lanka need 6 off the last 3 deliveries now.

OUT CAUGHT BEHIND! Strangled down leg and this is a sharp catch by Sanju Samson! Two in two for Suryakumar Yadav as Sri Lanka continues to wilt under pressure. They have now lost their last 7 wickets for 26 runs. Fired in down leg by SKY, flat and short, Maheesh Theekshana goes for the sweep to get it behind square on the leg side but misses. There is a noise as Sanju Samson takes it to his left. The umpire is unmoved and India take the review. The UltraEdge shows that there is glove involved. What a time to get it right! 6 needed off 3 now.

Is it off the pad, or off the bat? The decision for caught behind is sent upstairs now. A slight murmur when the ball passes off the glove and Theekshana is a goner. OUT!

Sri Lanka are imploding and collapsing, yet again! The Sri Lankan head coach Sanath Jayasuriya is sitting with a blank look on his face as he too, cannot believe what's happening. Maheesh Theekshana is the new batter in at number 9.

OUT! STRAIGHT TO THE FIELDER! Would you believe it? Kamindu Mendis could not have picked out the man in the deep any better. Suryakumar Yadav has a sheepish look on his face as it was there for Mendis to put away. A rank long hop by Suryakumar Yadav, on off, Kamindu Mendis brings out the reverse sweep but gets this one low on the bat. Spoons a simple catch to deep backward point where Rinku Singh takes an easy catch. Sri Lanka under pressure. 6 needed off 4 now.

Suryakumar Yadav starts the over well! SKY drops it short and gets it to spin away, short and on off, Kamindu Mendis gives himself too much room to go through the off side and fails to get any bat on it as the ball spins away.

Phew! This is going down to the wire now! Another gamble that has done wonders for India. Sri Lanka need 6 from the last over. Chamindu Wickramasinghe is the new batter in at number 8. Also, India has been penalised for not starting the final over on time. A maximum of 4 fielders are allowed outside the 30-yard circle. Initially it was Siraj to bowl the last, but just when we thought we are out of surprises, in comes Suryakumar Yadav himself to bowl the final over.

OUT! IN THE AIR AND GONE! More drama! Ramesh Mendis goes for the glory shot but it does not come off for him. Two in the over for Rinku Singh. India have somehow managed to take the game to the last over with Sri Lanka requiring 6 runs from 6 balls. Rinku drops it short and on middle, there to be put away. Ramesh Mendis goes on the back foot to pull it over deep mid-wicket. Connects well but it is enough to clear the man in the deep. Shubman Gill runs to his left near the fence and balances himself well to take the catch.

Rinku pushes it through, short and on middle, Ramesh Mendis tucks it to mid-wicket. Kamindu Mendis sets off for the run before he gets sent back by his partner. 6 needed off 7 now.

Flatter and shorter, on off, Ramesh Mendis goes the switch hit and tries to flat bat this one in front of square on the off side. Gets it high on the ball and it rolls wide of cover for two.

Rinku slants this one in, on a nagging length, on middle and leg, Kamindu goes back in his crease and whips it to deep mid-wicket for a single.

The gamble has worked! Rinku Singh removes the well-settled Kusal Perera! 9 needed off 11 balls now. Kamindu Mendis is in at number 7.

OUT! CAUGHT AND BOWLED! Suryakumar Yadav with that smile on his face. Rinku Singh bowls it quicker and flattens his trajectory this time around. Lands it short and drifts it on the leg stump line. Kusal Perera gets over-ambitious to take on the part-timer and goes for a pull shot but he ends up top-edging it over the mid on region. Rinku Singh moves to his left and settles underneath it, takes a safe catch. Kusal Perera perishes it on 46 (34).

Darted in from around the wicket, full and angling in, Kusal Perera switches his stance for the reverse but misses and wears it on the front pad.

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