10 excerpts from the 1st section on 'coloniality' from the book #IndiaThatIsBharat by @jsaideepak that I found worth sharing. Hope it interests you to go ahead and read it.
"coloniality is the fount of the policy of colonialism that results in colonisation, whose ultimate objective is to mould the subjugated society in the image of the coloniser" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
Most colonised societies did not realise that their entire worldview had changed, for 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
"Coloniality, according to Quijano, is the totalising thought behind colonialism, which monopolies time, space and subjectivity and makes all of them the exclusive preserve of the European coloniser" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
"the true genius of the European coloniser lay - not in brutal economic and political repression of the native, but in successfully projecting his way of life as the aspirational ideal" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
"Until natives fully reclaim their agency, which includes linguistic agency, there is no escaping the fact that they lead incomplete, inchoate and incoherent lives, individually and collectively" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
'psycho-cultural marginality' - loss of cultural identity results in social and individual disorganisation which manifests as 'low self-esteem, extreme poverty, depression, loss of identity .. #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
There is a demonstrable nexus between the Westphalian State System and the 'standard of civilisation' as set by international law, this manifests in the political thought of former European colonies #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
"Contemporary equality and liberalism are, in fact, secularised versions of Christian equality and Christian liberalism" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
Deprivation of a cultural or civilisation anchor to the 'modern' identities of colonies meant that their visions of the past, present and future were limited to merely preserving their territorial integrity while constantly ceding space on civilisational integrity to coloniality
Decoloniality's response to the modernity/rationality complex is indigenity, subjectivity and relationality. It seeks to release production of knowledge from the stranglehold of the West - 'epistemological decolonisation' #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
More excerpts from the remaining 2 sections on 'civilisation' and 'constitution' in upcoming tweet threads #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
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