Status Updates From Nationalism Without a Natio...

"The Gandhian nationalist agenda was arresting the emerging mass unity based on class, by the creation of two vertical communities based on religious identities, and placing them under the presumed unity of their communities. This shift from secular to spiritual, politics to religion, was presumed to be in accord with the Eastern genius and erection of the nationalist moral response to imperialism."

"The dominance of the upper castes in the pre-modern era, their successful articulation of the nationalism during colonial period and near-monopolistic power in civil/political societies excluding lower castes, Muslims & tribals in independent India, have helped in the historiographical construction and political maintenance of a complex nationalist mythical lore, as a master-narrative, of the nation's becoming."

"Viewed in the context of the slow erosion of the pre-colonial social structure that had been taking place, the impact of colonialism was to arrest social progress, economic diversification and emergence of culture-based polities and revert to an environment and climate of pan-indian brahminical, feudal consolidation, although within the colonial framework"

Taking my time with this because the academic nature of this book really takes some good deal of mental investment to be understood.