Summary of Becoming Indian
THE BOOK
In this important book Pavan Varma looks at the consequences of Empire on the
Indian psyche.
Drawing upon modern Indian history, contemporary events and personal
experience, he examines how and why the legacies of colonialism persist
in our everyday life, affecting our language, politics, creative expression and
self-image. Over six decades after Independence, English remains
the most powerful language in India, and has become a means of social and
economic exclusion. Our classical arts and literature continue to
be neglected, and our popular culture is mindlessly imitative of western trends.
Our cities are dotted with incongruous buildings that owe nothing
to indigenous traditions of architecture. For all our bravado as an emerging
superpower, we remain unnaturally sensitive to both criticism and praise
from the Anglo-Saxon world and hunger for its approval. And outside North Block,
the headquarters of free India’s Ministry of Home Affairs, a
visitor can still read these lines inscribed by the colonial rulers: ‘Liberty
will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty. It is a
blessing which must be earned before it can be enjoyed.’ With passion, insight
and impeccable logic, Pavan Varma shows why India, and other formerly subject
nations, can never truly be free—and certainly not in any position to assume
global leadership—unless they reclaim their cultural identity.
THE AUTHOR
A member of the Indian Foreign Service, Pavan Varma has served in Moscow, in
New York at the Indian Mission to the United Nations, in
London, where he was Director of the Nehru Centre, and as India’s High
Commissioner in Cyprus. He is at present India’s Ambassador in Bhutan.
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