This study presents a decolonized Rashtra in Indian political thought. Its main purpose is to prove that in the Indian tradition, the Rashtra is not just a geographical or political state, but a moral, spiritual and civilizational system. the Rashtra is based on righteousness, religion, welfare and Rajdharma. The colonial and Eurocentric knowledge tradition translated the Rashtra as a nation or state, which diminished its fundamental philosophical and cultural meaning. This study challenges this cognitive distortion and reconstructs the Indian concept of the Rashtra on the basis of the original texts of the Rigveda, the Shanti Parva of the Mahabharata and Kautilya's Arthashastra.