In the process, both the postcolonial and Marxist schools have arrogated to themselves the status of self-appointed guardians of ‘India Studies’, now ‘South Asia Studies’, which gives them monopoly over Bharat’s subjectivity, history and therefore, its future. This is one of the reasons for my conscious decision to place Bharat-specific literature on colonial consciousness alongside global literature on decoloniality to demonstrate that while the latter is celebrated in the context of the Americas, the former is relentlessly maligned despite seeking to achieve a similar goal as
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