A key intellectual and political conviction of the argument in the Latin American decoloniality literature, revisited in Sai Deepak’s tract, is the overpowering nature of colonial consciousness and the distinctive self-serving mindset of the coloniser as well. It first locates the origins of the colonial experience at the dawn of the religiously and racially inspired Age of Discovery rather than the subsequent era of the Enlightenment that preoccupies postcolonial analysts, firmly establishing its underlying Christian ideological rationalisation.
