Abstract
This paper seeks to highlight the tensions surrounding the current discourses on human rights and international law with the help of vectors of similarity and continuity as well as difference and rupture. It offers a brief understanding of psychological colonisation at work, building upon the works of renowned Indian scholars such as Ashis Nandy and Ranajit Guha. It identifies the presence of hegemony, colonialist ideology, and power in the human rights discourse. It looks into the dialectics of human rights and the decolonised, identifying the gene carriers of the ‘high culture of modern Western democracies’ in a process to develop a theory of resistance. The paper concludes with a suggestion that a multicultural approach be followed so as to achieve genuine ‘universal’ standards as proposed by the present human rights discourse.
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