The New Indian Renaissance as an Enduring Template for Decolonisation

A little-studied period of recent Indian history is the Golden Age of the New Indian Renaissance spanning the mid 19th to the mid 20th century.

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Why Bharat Must Consciously Abandon the Western Model of Ideological Universalism and Ramp up Decolonisation

Decolonisation is National Dharma and a Hindu Civilisational Urgency

The Irreversible Loss of the Hindu Society's Access to its own Past

BUT LET’S RETURN TO THE 19^TH CENTURY.

Even as the British were busy tampering with our traditional and social institutions and impregnating the Macaulayite model of education, a parallel development was occurring.

This was the Indian response to such social engineering efforts.

It took two major forms.

The first was the backlash th…