In this regard, the decolonial approach should be to understand such structures through the indigenous lens sans colonial biases, and it must be left to each indigenous society to determine the contemporary purchase of such structures based on its OET without being burdened by the guilt-racked conscience of the West. This would be consistent with decoloniality’s commitment to diversity. This point shall be explained better in the context of discussions surrounding ‘caste’ and ‘tribe’ in and about Bharat in the next section of the book.
