A Response to Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s article on decolonization
Pratap Bhanu Mehta has written a thought-provoking piece on the problems with the current talk of decolonisation (September, 1, 2023, Indian Express). His contention is that the current call for decolonization, though correct in its assessment that colonialism misrepresented Indian knowledge forms thereby almost blocking our access to it, is superficial. For the call for decolonization has neither been accompanied by any attempt to either “diagnose indic knowledge” or understand why the knowledge forms that…