Traditionally, the colonies were forced to adopt legal mechanisms to preserve their integrity upon achieving independence to overcome the fissiparous tendencies created by the imposition of nation-statehood. Hence an urgent and indispensable need for India as a nation represented (and continues to represent) an inculcation of a decolonial conscience rather than remaining smug in an illusory and metaphorical comfort offered by post-colonial philosophies. Indian society unquestionably accepted the ideas of modernity that came to dominate intellectual life in the nineteenth century and accepted as valid by both the colonizer and the colonized. He defines four forms of colonialism: exploitative colonialism, settler colonialism, surrogate colonialism and internal colonialism, the first two being the best-known. If there is one thing I believe the author wants the reader to take from this book, it is to be aware of our biases and internal coloniality and how we came to our present situation.

Few combine the vision of a civilisational liberation, easy to invoke in malleable cultural respects, with the exacting juridical knowledge needed for a precise and workable paradigm shift deconstructing this lingering submission. This project began with several British parliamentary debates indicating what was desired: at best, an anglophone India that would retain emotional bonds with the crown and by their god’s grace will also someday become a devotee of Christ. Decoloniality was first coined in Latin America and was first proposed in the 1980's and is now spread to South America and most parts of Africa. Even during the peak of the European colonization of Bharat, many scholars stood up prominently against it.All throughout my reading, I was expecting some clarification regarding how Mr Deepak would be placing Kerala and Tamil Nadu in Bharatavarsha, given how he was ardently citing Kerala and TN in the light of Hinduism. The monochromatic concept of a nation-state does not do justice to India on account of the sheer human diversity. This tendency, unfortunately prevails even to this day as one of most cliched phrases in social media talks about, “smashing Brahminical patriarchy.

On the other hand, the government wanted to produce a generation of people ‘Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect’.

Here, the brilliance of Deepak the lawyer and student of law shines brightly through the such that the entire left-liberal gang will be thrown into the obscurities of dark hell (pun entirely intended).

A) The left-liberal intellectuals are largely Macaulay-putras - English Medium educated with a colonial mindset. But soon the book descends into the expected territory; India is Aryavratha aka Bharata Varsha, Islamic colonisation disrupted Bharata. The reactions to the passing of these Bills have ranged from the sublime to the silly and asinine to the alarming. One may describe the three respectively, as a culture’s metaphysical beliefs, knowledge structure and praxis of rites and rules. I have followed J Sai Deepak for quite some time now through social media platforms, namely Facebook and Twitter.Yet another bundle in the box, consists of a large collection of extracts from many original documents.