The presentation of sequence of the events in a chronological way is necessary to arrest the attention of the reader and create an indelible impression on one‟s mind and heart. It requires an extensive study, knowledge and research in the field of which the recording of history is being done. It must be noted that authentic presentations of the past is not an easy task. The unbiased, truthful and effective presentation by the writers of history will only stand the test of time and attracts the readers to get engrossed from the beginning to end. The abilities and capabilities of the historian will be reflected during the process of recording the past. Only worthy contributions in each field deserve to be recorded.

Right from the creation of the world the process of recording history has begun. The paper is an attempt to study the paradox of ambivalence and agency in colonial spaces by double reading Ashis Nandy's ―The Intimate Enemy: The Loss and Recovery of Self‖, in light of psychoanalytical/postmodern theories of Cooley, Lacan, Guttari and Lyotard and postcolonial thinkers like Frantz Fanon. Resistance discourses also discursively constructed a new past exaggerating the masculine aspects of their culture to counter the West. In process not only the colonized were reshaped according to Western values but a homogenous west was also discursively constructed marginalizing many aspects of Western civilization. (Nandy) Colonial relations were not simple master-slave relations where power was exercised from the top rather these relations were dialectical in nature where both were synthesized in a new formation. West sometimes defined the subject races as enemy of values (Fanon) and sometimes as a Child. (Cooley) During the mirror stage (Flax) dependent development of a new identity for the colonized self took place in gaze of M/Other (the West). Colonizers not only occupied the territory but also possessed the minds of colonized who perceived themselves according to Looking Glass of Civilization. Colonialism was a rupture in history of colonial societies where a linear historicist dimension of time and progress was introduced as a new episteme in colonial space.

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