KC Bhattacharya - Philosopher
In his 1931 Sir Ashutosh Memorial Lecture titled "Swaraj in Ideas," Indian philosopher KC Bhattacharya lamented the impact of colonialism on India. He was extremely worried about two outcomes; The first was the enslavement of the mind, which he considered worse than political subjection, which merely restricted the "outer life of the people," whereas in the case of mind, "slavery begins when one ceases to feel the evil, & it deepens when the evil is accepted as good." The second harmful consequence for him was the replacement of the real mind with the shadow mind, "that functions like a real mind except in the manner of genuine creativeness." ~ KC Bhattacharya, Swaraj in Ideas, published in Visvabharati Quarterly (1954). Some excerpts from KC Bhattacharya's 1928(!!) essay, "Swaraj in Ideas." Mandatory reading. "There is no gainsaying the fact that this Western culture-- which means an entire system of ideas and...