Vol. 5, Issue 8, Part G (2019)

Abstract
Colonialism can be defined as the conquest and control of other people’s land and goods. It has been a recurrent and widespread feature of human history. The word ‘postcolonial’ is useful as a generalization to the extent that ‘it refers to a process of disintegration from the whole colonial syndrome, which takes many forms and is probably inescapable for all those whose worlds have been marked by the set of phenomena: “ postcolonial is a descriptive not an evaluative term.” The Indian colonial paradigm is that we were forced to learn English language, which had become a source of socio-cultural status and material prosperity.