At last completed reading this book written by one of the finest young minds in the country, J.Sai Deepak.
“India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.”
Often I have observed that referring to our country as BHARAT is thought of as being out of fashion amongst our youth and Sai Deepak seems to have noticed this and taken up this gigantic task of educating all of us.
Honestly it took me some time and effort to read this book because of the many new constructs that I had come across while reading this book. He puts forth very interesting perspectives on Colonialists, Colonisation, Colonial Consciousness, Civilisation, Civilisational Consciousness, “Civilisational state” and a “State that is a Civilisation”. Before reading this book I had a vague understanding of these and I had not given much thought to these. Deepak unravels very interesting details and elucidates the impact of both European and Middle Eastern colonisation of Bharat.
He also explains in-depth the constitutional aspects and impact of colonial consciousness on our constitution. He not only speaks of decolonisation at length but there is a lot written on wide ranging topics including the Rhodes scholarship.
A fine piece of scholarly work and I am already looking forward to the sequel. I strongly recommend that the youth of Bharat reads this work by this brilliant author.