Colonialism in India was made possible, sustained, and strengthened by cultural technologies of rule as by the more obvious and brutal modes of conquest that initially established power on foreign shores. What factors enabled the British or Portuguese to rule Indian society for such an extended period? Despite the history of exploration and expropriations, why is there a presence of identification and admiration of the colonial past? Edward Said argued that it is culture that provides this kind of moral power, which achieves a kind of 'Ideological Pacification....