Work at STIAS will be the final draft of four lectures which were delivered in 2013 at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) in Johannesburg under the general topic of Decolonial Thoughts. During the period of residence attention will be paid to the current situation in South Africa in order to make the writing more relevant for South African readers. This project will be in collaboration with Dillip Menon, Director of CISA.