India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

by J. Sai Deepak

Sir Henry Maine, ‘the idea of Nationality was first derived from India, and it travelled westwards’.

But to require races of India to coalesce into a nation with one religion and one tongue, is midsummer madness. It would revive the medieval idea of one Empire, one people and one church, which engendered the despotisms of the blackest dye.