INDIA that is BHARAT – “Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution”

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J. Sai Deepak has begun something [in this book] that needs serious attention. It also suggests that significant support is required to develop its proposals further in directions not yet explored. I hope the book will be read and debated widely, especially in and for the sake of the ‘India that is Bharat

Dr. Prakash A. Shah

Reader in Culture and Law, Queen Mary, University of London

Through this magisterial trilogy, advocate and scholar J. Sai Deepak successfully fills a huge vacuum in the corpus of decolonial scholarship from a uniquely empathetic Indian perspective. In a masterful manner. Sai Deepak traces the global history of colonialism, India’s unfortunate tryst with it and, importantly, inquires its impact on the emergence of a colonial consciousness. A must-read tribute to the Indic civilisation for anyone serious about understanding the pernicious trajectory of invasive colonialism and the lingering colonial consciousness in the ‘independent’ Indian (or should we term this as he does, Bharatiya) mind, and how to consciously work towards reversing it.

Dr. Vikram Sampath

Historian, Author and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University

Advocate J. Sai Deepak has provided India with a milestone: a step from superficial to integral decolonisation. Few combine the vision of a civilisational liberation, casy to invoke in malleable cultural respects, with the exacting juridical knowledge needed for a precise and workable paradigm shift to deconstruct this lingering submission.

Dr. Koenraad Elst

Scholar and Auther of Decolonizing the Hindu Mind

The wealth of evidence the author marshals in support of his arguments is truly impressive and reflects the rigour of his study. I have no doubt that India that is Bhanat will be a welcome addition to the nascent corpus of literature in this specialist field. That it has emerged from India is a bonus. I wish the book and its author all the success in getting the recognition it deserves.

Sandeep Balakrishna

Scholar and Author of Invaders and Infidels

At the outset, it should be mentioned that the author has built his argument, or rather the premise of his argument which is likely to unfold more fully in the sequels to this book, on the scholarship of thinkers associated with the intellectual movement called decoloniality, which is now recognised as a distinct area of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. The range and depth of the decolonial literature that Sai Deepak has surveyed, to first understand decoloniality, and then to create the foundations for its application in explaining the Bharatiya experience of colonialism, is quite impressive.

Sreejit Datta and Raghava Krishna in Open The Magazine