What are the main points to be noted while doing a Postcolonial criticism of an Indian novel?

This is a really broad question as we should be equally
careful to make "Postcolonial criticism" and "Indian novels" homogeneous entities.
Postcolonialism is a diverse and pluralistic critical formation, while Indian novels
treat many different themes. However, the plurality of postcolonial studies could be a
good point of departure to address the question. A postcolonial reading of a novel
should begin by working out how it uses a rhetoric of difference to revolt against the
assumption of the dominant (white, European) culture. How does the novel under study
subvert the stereotypes about Indian people and society? How does it criticize the state
of "subaltern subjects" that colonialist policies have imposed on Indian citizens? As
Edward Said and other postcolonial critics have stressed, Western discourse has
represented the Orient as the Other for so many centuries that they have succeeded in
passing off as realities myths regarding the Orientals' laziness, deceitfulness and
irrationality. You should also analyse how the novel represents power relations between
the West and India and how it reacts against the marginalization of non-Western
traditions