Starts by saying that his subject is not liberty of the will (‘unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity’) but civil or social liberties.

“By liberty was meant the protection against tyrannical rulers”

Mill says that the rulers were “conceived as in a necessarily anatagonistic relationship to the people whom they ruled. Rulers consisted of a governing One or a governing tribe or caste.”

Mill talks of the subjects’ liberty consisting of setting a limit to the oppressive rule thru Political rights and constitutional checks.

Gillian Wright writes that Shrilal Shukla had told her that when writing raag darbari, he was concerned with the mild distortions in the system of that time. for capturing the goings on now, a marquez-like fantasy would be required. arun kamal, in his raag darbari ke paksh mein gavaahi, makes the same point in praising the use of an improvised, multidimensional? language by Shukla to capture the new complex reality.