"Postcolonial populists domesticate globally circulating academic jargon in a selective fashion. An example of such domestication is J Sai Deepak’s India That is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution, a book for which the star decolonial theorist Walter Mignolo wrote an endorsement that was retracted only after exasperated protestations from South Asian scholars.
For Deepak and fellow postcolonial populists arguing in this emerging tradition of thought, the indigene of Bharat is not just any Indian (or, as one might have expected, India’s indigenous Adivasi communities) but the Hindu, who despite uncontested majority status in Indian society, is read as oppressed by religious minorities.
Three thousand years of caste discrimination are announced as a colonial construct imposed by the Raj, relieving the indigenous Indian of moral agency. Employing the decolonial argot of “epistemic disobedience to the West”, Deepak explains the necessity of undermining India’s secular Constitution as a relic of colonialism and restoring the Hindu to majoritarian greatness. Hindu majoritarianism is sold to the reader as an act of indigenous emancipation."
Both do the same thing. Things like decolonization, feminism, homosexuality and racism are used for furthering unconnected agenda all the time. What's new? Sky is blue?
Colonial this and colonial that is just an excuse of the modern day incompetence. Majority of Colonies have or will be independent for 50 years now, yet they keep blaming the colonial system, instead of focusing on modern day problems. But then again, people love being and playing the victim card. So it won't happen. Absolutely hate this colonial discourse.
Man- post colonial/ post modernists are hilarious. They’ll call what Hamas did on oct 7 decolonisation, but some guys asking to change the law through democratic processes is not decolonisation for them.
"Postcolonial populists domesticate globally circulating academic jargon in a selective fashion. An example of such domestication is J Sai Deepak’s India That is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution, a book for which the star decolonial theorist Walter Mignolo wrote an endorsement that was retracted only after exasperated protestations from South Asian scholars.
For Deepak and fellow postcolonial populists arguing in this emerging tradition of thought, the indigene of Bharat is not just any Indian (or, as one might have expected, India’s indigenous Adivasi communities) but the Hindu, who despite uncontested majority status in Indian society, is read as oppressed by religious minorities.
Three thousand years of caste discrimination are announced as a colonial construct imposed by the Raj, relieving the indigenous Indian of moral agency. Employing the decolonial argot of “epistemic disobedience to the West”, Deepak explains the necessity of undermining India’s secular Constitution as a relic of colonialism and restoring the Hindu to majoritarian greatness. Hindu majoritarianism is sold to the reader as an act of indigenous emancipation."