and its representation is not as neutral and objective as is often made out to be. The irony is that the colonial consciousness of the Indian mind is best captured by the fact that the very same views expressed by Sarda, Mookerji, Sarkar and Majumdar and others29 on the civilisational character of Bharat30 and its cultural unity31 are welcomed and received with a lot more enthusiasm when a book titled India: A Sacred Geography is written by Diana L. Eck.32 Perhaps,
