02169nam a22002537a 4500 20250806112603.0 211109b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789354352492 AL eng 23 954 DEEI J Sai Deepak 10059 India that is Bharat : Coloniality Civilisation Constitution New Delhi Bloomsbury 2021 xxiv,460p HB 24x16 cm 3091 639.20 ₹ 799.00 20% 25-10-2021 India, That Is Bharat, the first book of a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of European 'colonial consciousness' (or 'coloniality'), in particular its religious and racial roots, on Bharat as the successor state to the Indic civilisation and the origins of the Indian Constitution. It lays the foundation for its sequels by covering the period between the Age of Discovery, marked by Christopher Columbus' expedition in 1492, and the reshaping of Bharat through a British-made constitution-the Government of India Act of 1919. This includes international developments leading to the founding of the League of Nations by Western powers that tangibly impacted this journey. Further, this work also traces the origins of seemingly universal constructs such as 'toleration', 'secularism' and 'humanism' to Christian political theology. Their subsequent role in subverting the indigenous Indic consciousness through a secularised and universalised Reformation, that is, constitutionalism, is examined. It also puts forth the concept of Middle Eastern coloniality, which preceded its European variant and allies with it in the context of Bharat to advance their shared antipathy towards the Indic worldview. In order to liberate Bharat's distinctive indigeneity, 'decoloniality' is presented as a civilisational imperative in the spheres of nature, religion, culture, history, education, language and, crucially, in the realm of constitutionalism. Indiann History 10060 History 10061 Coloniality 10062 Civilisation 10063 Constitution 10064 ddc REF 220468 220468 0 0 ddc 0 0 PS AL AL SK 2021-10-27 Biblios Book Point Surathkal-575014 639.20 7 1 954 DEEI 075074 2025-10-08 14:26:56 2025-09-29 799.00 2021-11-09 BK