10 excerpts from the 2nd section on 'civilisation' from the book #IndiaThatIsBharat by @jsaideepak
that I found worth sharing. Hope it interests you to go ahead and read it.
that I found worth sharing. Hope it interests you to go ahead and read it.
"European coloniality is like the Matrix. One just needs to become aware of it, after which it is impossible to unsee, especially in matters of religion, polity, education, economics and the law" - #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
"The Muslim invaders did not merely sing their hymn of hate and go back burning a few temples on the way. They planted the seed of Islam. Its growth is so thick in North India that the remnants of Hindu and Buddhist culture are just shrubs" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
Bharat's indigenous identity must be traced to a period before the Islamic invasions (Middle eastern colonisalism) and European colonisation. 'the Hindu religion' was the glue that bound this civilisation #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
According to Radha Kumud Mookerji, Jambudvipa is a geographical reference, Bharatvarsha is a political reference, both of which demonstrate a unified geographical and political consciousness much before the idea of a British identity was even born #IndiaThatisBharat @jsaideepak
The institution of pilgrimage is undeniably a most powerful instrument for developing the geographical sense in people that enables them to think and feel that India is a single though immense organism filled with the tide of one strong pulsating life from end to end @jsaideepak
"The framers of the Constitution expressly acknowledged that they were not founding a hitherto non-existent country, but were, in fact, putting together a statist apparatus for an ancient civilisation of which they were descendants" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
"a State that resides over a civilisation is not a civilisation-state; instead, a State that is conscious of the civilisation character of its society and structures itself on civilisational lines is a civilisation-state" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
"Bharat is the only natural homeland for the Indic consciousness, the Indian State has the civilisation duty to ensure that this space remains as such" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
"Bharat's indigenous society has ceded its institutional independence and capabilities at the feet of the State" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
"Indic civilisational worldview can only be protected by recognising its group identities and rights" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
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