Deadly distortions of Colonial Rule- Notes from ‘A Ruler’s Gaze’ by Arvind Sharma- III
[contextly_sidebar id=”z383thK60HcOc6rIKlV83jJos2b1Ro4G”] We saw in the previous parts the application of Saidian lens to assess British rule over India. Knowledge produces power; later, power becomes More...
Deadly distortions of Colonial Rule- Notes from ‘A Ruler’s Gaze’ by Arvind Sharma- II
[contextly_sidebar id=”04X37DnQ2cZq59oYwZM6CCNzSDOH3Erw”] In the first part, we saw how the Saidian lens can apply to assess the British rule over India by the distinguished author, Arvind Sharma. In More...
Deadly distortions of Colonial Rule- Notes from ‘A Ruler’s Gaze’ by Arvind Sharma- I
Edward Said wrote an important book called ‘Orientalism,’ where he noted Western representation of Eastern cultures as an exercise in exaggerating the differences, presuming Western superiority. Orientalism More...
Deadly blend: Cambridge Analytica, caste and colonialism
In his autobiography ‘Mein Kampf’, European mass murderer Adolf Hitler wrote: “The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.” American author Tom Clancy More...
Sati and Atrocity Narrative for the Civilizing Mission
[contextly_sidebar id=”nVwJzIXjcxByz4glCwNHbRYD6UR6vGwO”] Colonial accounts of Indian Society created a narrative of “oppression” and justified the White Man’s rule as necessary for civilizing More...
Indian Academia and its Colonized Self
The Self is Brahman, Speech is Brahman The Upanishads, some of the foundational texts of the Indic religious-ethical tradition, are replete with a profound humanism. They do not conceive the Divine as something More...
Decolonizing the Indian Civil services-2
[contextly_sidebar id=”lvXzbemMsp3tREMJjxqUGVpPrPDSYh0x”]This a transcript of a talk delivered by Rajiv Malhotra Sociology: In the Sociology discipline, the very discipline is basically modern, based More...
Decolonizing the Indian Civil services-1
[contextly_sidebar id=”u32f6cKlVJ0NDce4qblAVherYMvrRfwZ”]This a transcript of a talk delivered by Rajiv Malhotra India’s Civil Services are colonized from the very beginning of a person’s career. More...
The White Man’s Burden
A common reason widely accepted for the British adventures in India are the monetary prospects they found to realise from trading with India and more so by controlling/ruling it. It is also widely accepted at least More...
Book Review: An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor
An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor can be purchased from Amazon Shashi Tharoor gave a fantastic speech at Oxford last year where he took apart the British rule in India. He playfully asked for a reparation of More...