Current decolonisation project drips with resentment. It conflates modernity merely with colonialism. To see the insidiousness of this project, just ask this question: What should be the terms on which citizens relate to each other?
“Decolonise!” This imperative seems to be the ideological flavour of the moment. It is behind the calls to restructure education, to rewrite laws, reconceptualise history, reimagine public spaces, reclaim Indic consciousness, and even junk the Constitution. It is a loose intellectual movement, captured in big and widely circulated books such as J Sai Deepak’s India that is Bharat or shorter polemics like Ambika Dutt Sharma’s recent Bharatiya Manas ka Vi-Upniveshikaran (The Decolonising of Indian Consciousness).
It frames intellectual discourse in many vernacular languages, especially Hindi. It is increasingly the scaffolding that frames fundamental changes to policy and is freely deployed, most recently in the debate over the Criminal Law Code. From home minister to chief economic advisor — we are all decolonialists now.
The rhetorical power of decolonise lies in the fiendish appropriation of attractiveness of the term “decolonial.” Who could possibly be against decolonisation? But one should be under no illusion that, in its current form, decolonial talk is about consolidating a deeply exclusionary political agenda…
After the truth-shower 