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Reflection on colonial history then is ridden with ‘new tensions and violence’ whilst potentially inscribing what Balibar calls a ‘lesson of otherness’ into the very code of European citizenship and constitution: European recognition ‘of otherness as an indispensable element of its own identity, its virtuality, its ‘power’. As Ranajit Guha has shown, working on Indian case described by Samaddar himself, the perspective of the ‘conquistador’ gave way quite soon, in colonial knowledge as well in colonial governmentality in ‘British India’, to perspective of the ‘legislator’. The specific backwardness of the peoples subject to colonial dominance made it necessary to rule them not according to the principles of ‘constitutional government’ prevailing in Europe but according to principles of ‘the patrimonial State existing before’ it. At the same time, however, precisely because of the ways in which the end of colonialism came about, post-colonialism denotes a situation in which the ‘meta-border’ between metropolis and colonies no longer organises any stable world cartography.
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