Revolutionary propaganda struck at the very heart of the normative world order of colonial India. The colonial world order was enshrined in law and underwritten by appeals to so called universal values of truth, justice and righteousness. The revolutionary propagandists attacked the colonial edifice by rejecting the moral and legal foundations of the claims to legitimacy of colonial rule over India. Revolutionary propaganda sought to persuade the public of the illegitimacy of colonial rule in India by arguing that its foundations rested on chicanery and force and its function was to drain India of its resources. If colonial rule could be demonstrated as resting on illegitimate foundations, revolutionary resistance through violence to colonial rule could then be represented as legitimate and just. To the colonial authorities, the attempt of the propagandists to de-mythicize colonial rule constituted an act of subversion of the established state-order, which was upheld through the rule of law. In India, the rule of law served to strengthen the foundations of empire through both practical and ideological means. Practically, the law served as a weapon of colonial extraction of labour, wealth, produce as well as of regulation and control, while ideologically it served to legitimize colonial rule by claiming that the British system of justice upheld peace and liberty, thus advancing the cause of Britain's civilizing mission in India.