The India-period writings of Emilio Servadio (1904-1995) describe the practice of an Italian psychoanalyst operating outside of the typical alienating projections that haunted colonial psychoanalysis in India. This essay, based on his archive, is the first reading of his India period to be written, and it is divided into four parts. Part I tells the story of Servadio in India as derived from the correspondence between Servadio and Girindrasekhar Bose, the first president of the Indian Psychoanalytical Society (IPS). Part II describes the historical and political context of early psychoanalysis in India. Part III briefly describes Servadio's legacy in the evolution of contemporary Indian psychoanalysis by pointing out the link between his unique politics and the careers of two of his analysands. Part IV is a discussion of an article written by Servadio—Notes on Oral and Phallic Elements in a Single Hour. The article is read for its contribution to the theory of the psychosexual stages; for Servadio's method of dream interpretation and philosophy of dreaming; for its interpretation of the oceanic feeling; and for the unique place this gives Servadio in the politics and the theory of coloniality in psychoanalysis. 1