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

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#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.

Sujets

• Religion
• Constitutions
• Colonisation

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 28 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669369356
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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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 the late 1980s, there was not enough rigorous scholarship that made sense of the nature of colonial power and its continuing impact on the life and polity of decolonized nations.

#4

Coloniality is the totalizing thought behind colonialism, which monopolizes time, space, and subjectivity. It makes all of these the exclusive preserve of the European colonizer.

#5

The coloniser subtly co-opted dominant groups or the elite from the colonized society into the colonial power structure to gradually wean them away from the rest of their people. The effect of the introduction of the modernity/rationality complex into the culture of colonized societies was to otherize the entire indigenous worldview, and it had to prove its relevance to the modern and rational mainstream.

#6

The modernity/ rationality complex was created as a result of coloniality, and it continues to exist today. It is the belief that the only way to regain dignity is to adopt European culture and thought processes, which includes the European way of achieving economic prosperity.

#7

The word modern was first used in northern Italy in the sixth century ce, when the Roman Empire still existed but northern Italy was conquered and ruled by Germanic Ostrogoths. It was used to describe the present in negative light and the past in positive light.

#8

The process of classification of the world by the European coloniser led to the sub-humanisation and dehumanisation of several communities, which ultimately led to the creation of serfdoms and slavery.

#9

The impact of European colonialism cannot be limited to one particular aspect of life. It changed not only ontology, theology, epistemology, and anthropology, but also ethics, and defined both politics and policy.

#10

Columbus, the man chosen to find the islands and mainlands that would become the Americas, was a devout Catholic who believed in one God. He was convinced that the people living there were willing to accept Christianity and be trained in good morals.

#11

We, of our own accord, not at your request, but of our own free will, grant and assign to you and your successors, kings of Castile and Leon, all islands and mainlands found and to be found towards the west and south, by drawing a line from the Arctic pole to the Antarctic pole.

#12

The Christian command to convert non-Christians could not have been more explicit. The reference to India in the Bull was of direct consequence to the European colonisation of Bharat.

#13

The critical theory of religion is relevant to understanding the critical theory of race, and both are relevant to understanding the evolution of ethics. Any understanding of coloniality and modernity is incomplete without applying the twin lenses of religion and race.

#14

Christianity, when it came into contact with indigenous societies, only saw three categories: Christians, infidels, and idolators. The Europeans believed that the natives were not people with a soul, and thus not fully human.

#15

The impact of colonial contact on the cultural heritage of native American Indian people was to convert them to Christianity, which would allow them to gain social respectability and access to European education.

#16

The European coloniser wielded both the stick and the carrot to force the native populations to adopt European culture. The demand for European culture was created and met by the European coloniser, not just for the present but for all time to come.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The impact of European colonialism on native societies is typically centered around the political independence of colonised nations, the immense economic harm caused to them, and the consequent illiteracy and impoverishment of these societies. But the impact of European colonialism goes beyond this.

#2

The Native Americans had a deep respect for nature, which gave rise to their faith. Their epistemology was based on nature and communal harmony.

#3

The European coloniser’s approach to development was completely different from the Native American’s. The coloniser believed that humans were above other creatures since they had souls, while the Native Americans saw themselves as part of nature.

#4

The Enlightenment, which challenged Christian dogma, paved the way for the conquest of nature by the superior human. Nature was reduced to a commodity, and the knowledge of which was necessary not to live with or in it, but for the utilisation of natural resources.

#5

The Enlightenment, which spurred the colonial project of reordering nature to serve human needs, was to blame for the radical uncoupling of the cultural and the social from nature. The coloniser’s approach to conservation was colonial because the silo-based approach to human beings and nature continued to plague his new mission of conserving nature.