Minute people justify things like empire by talking about gender, or caste, or minorities are being emancipated by it, or make false binaries like gender freedom v anticolonialism please remember this comment from Aimé Cesaire:'They talk to me about local tyrants brought to...'

'...reason, but I note that in general the old tyrants got on very well with new ones, & that there has been established between them, to the detriment o the people...a mutual circuit of services & complicity'.

Colonialism enabled a ferment in colonized polities out of which...

...caste (or similar) rightly came up as a vital fracture but the British generally allied themselves with caste/class elites. A critical analysis of empire, as I have repeatedly said, enjoins the colonized & their descendants to...

turn the lens upon themselves as much as at the metropole. However, facile ideas like colonialism enabling emancipation don't enable that & are historically inaccurate besides.

We can pronounce a plague on more than one house, & the complicities between them.

And finally, anticolonialism is not nationalism, most undergraduates understand that quite clearly, not sure why their elders & better read don't. Indeed, in most cases, anticolonialism enjoins us to be very critical of nationalism & the ways in which it mimics colonialism.