Even in responding to the European coloniser’s contention that Bharat was never a ‘nation’, Mookerji does not feel the need to prove that we are a nation bound by a single ethnicity or language or ‘religion’ in the Christian sense. Instead, his calm response is the rejection of European nationhood as a yardstick for Bharat to pass muster on, and the emphasis on federal civilisationalism as the appropriate lens to understand Bharat.
