Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s17.3
Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s17.3
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The paradigm that the West is strong in materialist gains and India in spirituality was instituted by the British to legitimize the colonial project, says Edward Said. The mystical aura of the so-called Indian spirituality provided an escape to the educated Indian and a cover for the inferiority before the superior technology of the West.