Summary of J Sai Deepak's India, that is Bharat

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#1The arguments I presented in support of the female devotees of Swami Ayyappa before a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court were widely reported by the national media. However, very few media outlets made an attempt to understand or unbundle that multilayered argument.

#2 I was initially surprised by the criticism of my position, which was labeled as anti-religious, by those who disagreed with me. I was intrigued by the use of pejorative terms to describe a position that supported a religious institution.

#3 Colonisation, as understood by scholars, is a process or phenomenon by which people belonging to a 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.

#4 The origins of Eurocentrism can be traced back to the European colonization and coloniality that began in the fifteenth century. The Age of Discovery, which was followed by the Reformation, led to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, which was followed by what is considered the zenith of European civilization: the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669369356

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Insights on J Sai Deepak's India, that is Bharat

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The arguments I presented in support of the female devotees of Swami Ayyappa before a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court were widely reported by the national media. However, very few media outlets made an attempt to understand or unbundle that multilayered argument.

#2

I was initially surprised by the criticism of my position, which was labeled as anti-religious, by those who disagreed with me. I was intrigued by the use of pejorative terms to describe a position that supported a religious institution.

#3

Colonisation, as understood by scholars, is a process or phenomenon by which people belonging to a 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.

#4

The origins of Eurocentrism can be traced back to the European colonization and coloniality that began in the fifteenth century. The Age of Discovery, which was followed by the Reformation, led to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, which was followed by what is considered the zenith of European civilization: the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

#5

The fourth school, which is decolonial thought, challenges European universalisms, particularly in the political realm. It believes that Columbus’ voyage marked the beginning of one of the most repressive, bloody, racist and genocidal chapters ever witnessed in human history.

#6

The decolonial school believes that the celebration of the Age of Discovery by European supremacists is understandable because the period was preceded by the Dark Ages for a millennium for Europe. However, since the rest of the world did not live in the Dark Ages prior to the fifteenth century, the celebration of the Age of Discovery by several erstwhile colonised societies is tragic and naïve.

#7

The Asian experience may impact the way colonialism, coloniality, and decoloniality are perceived because, while almost all of the Americas and close to half of Africa have been converted to the religion of the European coloniser, this is not the case with vast swathes of Asia.

#8

The focus of decolonial scholarship on race may be explained by the fact that Asia has managed to preserve its non-Christian character to a considerable degree, which makes its contemporary everyday encounters with coloniality relevant and critical to its existence and survival.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The desire of the colonized to become sovereign nation-states was largely due to the fact that their entire worldview had been changed by European coloniality. They could not see beyond political independence, and aspired for freedom to govern themselves, albeit using the same values and institutions they had inherited from the European coloniser.

#2

Coloniality is a fairly plausible explanation for the quest of nation-statehood of colonised societies. The global presence of European colonising empires and their politico-economic ideas and institutions may have made it inconceivable and infeasible for colonised societies to revert to their precolonial forms of political and social organisation.

#3

Until the end of the Cold War in