ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the pre-colonial and colonial period and shows how the presence of Europeans impacted on and began to unpick the prevailing social order – social order that I shall characterize here as having a Kantian logic of friendship. The chapter will begin by first establishing the concept of a Kantian logic of friendship which this chapter defines as a deep internalization of cultural knowledge between the different religious communities on the subcontinent to the extent that religious denominations and symbols did not constitute the total sum of politics in the region.
