Buy the book and read it even if its rigour daunts you. Read as much as you can, and let it live in your bookshelf. I wager, you will return to it sooner than you think.

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. Also in 1919, as if on cue, the final Government of India Act arrived and offered itself as the model for Bharat’s constitution. That this did inspire the Constitution Drafting Committee was admitted by Dr B R Ambedkar, its chairman.He finally shows us how Protestant Christian values were universalied through international laws, the League of Nations and other such world bodies and how it affects everyone even today and especially Bharat as it is the only standing civilisation since the dawn of Christianity and Islam. 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. 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. 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. The third part of the book called CONSTITUTION and stamps the fact how secular is just Christian secular (with context to 1858 act passed by the Raj). The liberal sounding laws that were/are not actually liberal but were really oppressive to the native folks and thus the need for decoloniality of an Indic brand.

On November 6, the PTI Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan sent a charter to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), describing the Chairman of the party as a "prisoner of conscience. The Marxists of India being special kind that serves the purpose of Christian and Islamic colonialities are also responsible for the fostering of colonial virus in Bharat's educational system. The segment also sheds the light on the works of Indic scholars and researchers Har Bilas Sharda, Radha Kumud Mookerji, Jadunath Sarkar and RC Majumdar) who were Non-Left and were admonished by the Marxist Distorians. A) The left-liberal intellectuals are largely Macaulay-putras - English Medium educated with a colonial mindset. A good example is the “privilege” narrative which they have copied from the West and tried to hammer in India. Or “anti-Brahminism”.

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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. 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. b. The sources for his work eg: Chapter 6's Bharat, Coloniality and Colonial consciousness to be from only his own point of view 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" In addition to wealth transfer and proselytisation, there was yet another colonial objective. It was to influence the Indian constitution-making process with a view to alienate it from Bharat’s OET roots and rule it through postcolonial proxies.

Cons: even though the author has provided good legal evidence to support his claims he unfortunately has a biased outlook towards them. He starts from a position that european value systems and frameworks are inherently evil and should be discarded and makes no attempt to judge them based on their utility and looks at them purely through ideological and confrontational lenses. In contrast to the finesse of the British conversion operations, the Islamic colonials were laughably clumsy, what with bloodied swords held aloft, eyes roving for women and the body doubled under weight of the loot. One thing i can speak jokingly. It seems to me that the author may be called as the ' Rana Ayub of the Indic wing' ( newly emerged far right spectrum in a different name ).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. The treatment is extremely detailed and most of the sections are very dense, and this is a book for serious reading on the subject.