Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra My life as ideology
MISSIONARY CONSPIRACY: LETTERS TO ARUN SHOURIE—A POSTMODERN HINDU
Preface to the First Edition
Five major interests shaped the British East India Company’s rule in Bengal:
(i) Individual need and greed drove the rank and file of the Company. They had come to a distant land to make money. Their salaries were meagre because it was assumed—and permitted—that they would engage in private trade on the side. Military success made Clive almost a millionaire; other Company employees therefore saw nothing wrong in using the political power they had acquired in Bengal after 1757 to accept, if not extort, bribes. Their corruption, Lord Macaulay later remarked, made them “a gang of public robbers.” It turned British rule into “an empire of evil genii,” far worse than the Mughal Empire it had replaced...
Simply put, postmodernism is like eating curry with pizza instead of rice or chapati. In other words, it permits people to borrow, according to their tastes, whatever they wish from diverse and even contradictory traditions—religious, intellectual, cultural, political, artistic, architectural, medical, and so on—without concern for consistency or Truth. Thus, within a postmodern framework, one is free to believe in and worship idols of gods even while maintaining that no god exists.
This is possible because postmodernism assumes that the human mind cannot know the Truth. Anyone who claims to know the Truth is dismissed outright—without discussion, examination, or tolerance—as a “fundamentalist.”...
As I explained in my letters to Mr. Shourie, committed postmodernists do not seek the objective facts of history, nor do they interpret texts within their historical contexts, as modern historians traditionally did. Instead, they deconstruct history in an effort to uncover what they assume to be a hidden “lust for imperial power” behind movements such as Christian missions.
During the modern era, truth was regarded as superior to all forms of power, whether ecclesiastical or political. But what are we to do when we become convinced that absolute truth cannot be known, discussed, debated, or demonstrated? And what if we are told that, if truth can be known at all, it can only be encountered through a private, non-rational, mystical experience of silence and ecstasy—an experience inaccessible to verbal communication, investigation, or public discussion? If truth cannot be known, then, in a postmodern world, its moral demands can no longer restrain the “will to power.”
Modern institutions such as the press, parliament, and the courts served not only as centres of governance but also as forums for the pursuit and debate of truth, much like scientific laboratories, archaeological excavations, and theological institutions. But what becomes of these institutions if truth itself is unknowable? These letters explore both the benefits of modernity that the missionary movement brought to India and the consequences of the postmodern, truth-denying, mystical, and “idolatrous” Hinduism that Mr. Shourie defends.
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