When a church is born not from inner revelation but from royal convenience, a serious civilisation has a duty to ask what, exactly, was being worshipped – God, or power. A calm, unsentimental look at the Church of England shows how pious language was wrapped around conquest, how “saving souls” politely accompanied the stripping of land, culture and dignity. For anyone connected to Hindu civilisation, remaining innocent about this history is no longer a sign of virtue; it is a luxury we can no longer afford. This is not an invitation to hatred but to insight – to see clearly where theology ends and imperial bookkeeping begins. A society that learns to see in this way becomes much harder to deceive and almost impossible to colonise again.

With his trademark warmth and razor-sharp humour, Pt. Satish K Sharma peels back the pious packaging to show how theology, trade and tyranny learned to speak the same language.

Read, watch, and then respond – not with blind outrage or blind obedience, but with the mature questions of one who has finally decided to grow up civilisationally.