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What was originally intended to be a single book, expanded to a Trilogy and will now be a Tetralogy to do justice to the expansive timeframe being covered and the literature unearthed during the research. This book, the third in the Bharat Tetralogy, will apply the lens of decoloniality and take the discussion forward from the second book that covered the period from 1740 to December 1924. Readers would recollect that the second book merged the discussion in the first on Christian/European Coloniality with the history of Islamic/Middle Eastern Coloniality in Bharat to understand their combined impact on the evolution of constitutional thought in Bharat. 
Having dealt with the period until the end of 1924 when the Khilafat Movement is popularly understood to have ended, in this book the author intends to take the discussion forward by covering the period from 1925 to 1939 to examine in some detail a host of Movements, each of which had a bearing on the integrity of undivided Bharat and its constitutional/legal journey. Apart from continuing to track the journey of Christian and Islamic Colonialities in Bharat, as the narrative moves towards the crystallisation of Pakistan, the author hopes to understand in parallel the Sangathan, Communist, Sikh, Dravidian and Ambedkarite Movements from the limited perspective of assessing their impact, if any, on Bharat’s constitutional journey.

India that is Bharat

  • By J Sai Deepak

    As before, given that the developments in Bharat were not insulated from global developments, the author will touch upon the latter right until before the outbreak of the Second World War to the extent these tectonic developments shaped the discourse on human rights and constitutionalism, and enabled the further secularisation and consequent universalisation of Western political ideas and institutions.
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    Imprint: Bloomsbury India / Pub date: August 2026 / Format: 234 x 153mm / Extent: 492 pages / Word Count: 80000 words
  • About the Author

    J. Sai Deepak is an engineer-turned-litigator, practising as an arguing counsel primarily before the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi. A mechanical engineer from Anna University, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in law from IIT Kharagpur’s Law School in 2009, and has carved a niche for himself as a litigator in civil commercial and constitutional matters. Over the years, he has been part of several landmark matters, such as the ones relating to the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple, the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple and Basmati Geographical Indications. In 2019, he was awarded the Young Alumni Achiever’s Award by his alma mater IIT Kharagpur. Apart from delivering lectures on constitutional issues, he is a prolific writer for leading newspapers and magazines.

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