Dr. S.N. Balagangadhara12 is of the view that be it ‘Hinduism’ ‘Buddhism’, or ‘Jainism’, each of these is a colonial construct in an empirical sense, but not in the epistemological sense. In other words, the existence of Dharmic OET systems or sampradayas obviously predates the Christian European coloniser, while only their reconstruction as ‘religions’ in the Christian sense is attributable to him.
