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Colonial Gaze
African netizens slam ‘The Economist’ for romanticising colonial-era bureaucrats
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In its July 31 edition, The Economist included a review of the book, ‘In the Forest of No Joy’ by J.P. Daughton. The book...
How the British created the Indian ‘caste system’
Colonial Indologists, in tandem with colonial administrators, created a false entity known as the 'caste system' in India that subverted the traditional jati-varna paradigm, and has unfortunately become a deeply entrenched reality in the sociocultural fabric of contemporary Bharat...
Purva Paksha: Reversing the gaze
The antidote to Western universalism that privileges Western gaze and reduces all differences to sameness, lies in the dharmic practice of purva paksha, a...