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India, Dec. 16 -- Second book of Sai Deepak's Bharat Trilogy launched
HH Sri Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar Foundation has organised an insightful talk and interaction session on the book 'India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation' by its author J. Sai Deepak, who is also a Supreme Court Advocate, at Vijnana Bhavan in Manasagangothri, Mysuru, on Dec. 17 at 5 pm. Here we publish a book review by R. Chandra Prakash. - Ed
* Title: 'India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation'
* Author: J. Sai Deepak
* Year : 2022
* Pages : 616
* Price : Rs.799
* Publisher : Bloomsbury Publications, New Delhi
By R. Chandra Prakash
Sai Deepak's second book of the trilogy "India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation" is a detailed account of the 1905-1924 tumultuous period, during which 'a partnership of convenience between European and Middle Eastern colonialities' inflicted irreparable damage on Indic Civilisation. This book elaborates on how this period has also cast a politico-legal dye, with deep fault lines engraved in it, for the post Independence Constitution. He had earlier published "India that is Bharat" which discussed Coloniality, Civilisation and Constitution.
The Determining period: 1905-1924
This period was of great socio-political upheavals in the annals of freedom struggle. To name some of them: Partition of Bengal in 1905, Establishment of Muslim League in 1906, Separate Electorates in 1909, Re-unification of Bengal in 1911, Outbreak of I WW in 1914, the Boer War, Lucknow Pact of...