Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part B (2020)

Abstract
In addition to upsetting the cultural ties of the colonized people, colonization also led to their uprooting and displacement. There was a massive transplantation of population between the colonies which separated the colonized from their native lands and forced them to accommodate themselves in alien surroundings. This shift of population between the colonies was a deliberate measure taken to make the colonial societies heterogeneous, as homogeneous ones could have caused a political threat to the colonizers. this mixing up of various peoples created grave problems both at the individual and social levels. The intense alienation and sense of homelessness that such colonized individuals experience maybe ascribed to their displacement in the alien environment.