SR : Postcolonialism - By Bill Ashcroft

Postcolonialism:-

           The Colonialism is the policy of a country seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of  economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their religion, language, economics, and indigenous peoples. The foreign administrators rule the territory in pursuit of their interests, seeking to benefit from the colonised region's people and resources.

        

                     Colonialism is a relationship between an indigenous majority and a minority of foreign invaders. The fundamental decisions affecting the lives of the colonised people are made and implemented by the colonial rulers in pursuit of interests that are often defined in a distant metropolis. Rejecting cultural compromises with the colonised population, the colonisers are convinced of their own superiority and their ordained mandate to rule.

 Summary:-  

              "One of the most exiting features of  English literature today is the explosion of post-colonial literatures written in English in formerly colonised societies. This field has given rise to a great range of theoretical ideas, concepts, problems and debates, and these have been addressed in a great range of articles, essays, talks and books published or written from every continent. This book brings together a selection of these theoretical issues in a way that indicates and celebrates the immense diversity of post-colonial theory. As such it will be an indispensable volume for students, teachers, researchers and theorists, and anybody interested in field." "The uniqueness of this volume is in its range and comprehensiveness. By bringing together nearly ninety extracts from over fifty different writers, it demonstrates the vast spread of post-colonial theory, the degree to which such theory is emerging outside the metropolitan intellectual centres, and the significance such theory has in the practical political issues of living in this range of societies. This book makes accessible the full range of post-colonial theory, which otherwise would be either difficult or impossible for students, teachers or researchers to fully utilize." 

  Critical note:- 

               Postcolonial criticism is an examination is an examination of the history, culture, and especially literature of cultures of Africa, Asia (including the indian subcontinent), the caribbean islands, and south America as they are produced by people from these areas during the colonial era of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Specifically, postcolonial criticism is an analysis of the power and political structures that pervaded the relationship between colonial powers and colonized areas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With the development of trade routes under the Ottoman Empire,

                          Gujrati Hindus, Syrian 

                   Muslims, Jews, Armenians, 

                  Christians from south and 

                  central Europe operated 

                  trading routes that supplied

                  Persian and Arab horses to

                  the armies of all three 

                  empires, Morcha coffee to 

                 Delhi and Belgrade, persian

                 silk to India and Istanbul.