Reinforcing a New Indian Identity
India, that is Bharat, has existed as a civilization for a very long time. Even before the Greeks could comprehend philosophy, the Indian civilizational state was producing some of the greatest philosophical texts in various domains, many of which are relevant to the day. Some of the oldest universities in the world came into existence in this part of the world. If not for the colonisation and decimation of India’s indigenous identities, Bharat would have probably been at par with some of the most developed nations in the world. Even though 75 years of India’s existence in its current form has yielded a period of respite from the shackles of a colonised master, our thoughts have not been liberated. We are plagued with a thought process that is a product of the Western hegemonic ecosystem that establishes the superiority of Western civilizational thought. Western civilizational thought has a tendency to disregard the wisdom of oriental cultures. In his Magnum Opus Orientalism, Edward Sa...