4. But India had the magical power to colonize its
colonizers.
Be it Portugals, French or Britishers, they couldn’t
resist themselves and fell in love with India and
Indians.
Consequently, mixing of both the cultures started.
5. To prevent the European culture from being lost into Indian
streets, need of a new imperial policy was felt.
And there started ‘Colonization’ in its true sense.
Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the
subjugation of one people to another. (Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy)
6. To prevent the deterioration of English culture and military significance
under the influence of Indian culture, it was necessary to prove Indians and
their culture inferior to that of Europeans.
History of India was manipulated accordingly.
And thus the mission started of brainwashing both Indians and
Europeans, which gave birth to universally accepted,
COLONIAL BELIEFS.
7. Indians are unethical.
Indians are
uneducated.
Indians are
corrupt….and the list
goes on.
8. 70 years ago, Britishers left India, but the colonial beliefs they
had instilled in our minds did not.
This acceptance of colonial beliefs expressing western
superiority over the Orients is
COLONIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
A mindset which still rules our minds.
9. Rethinking Colonialism and Colonial Consciousness : The Case of
Modern India
by S. N. Balagangadhara, Esther Bloch, Jakob De Roover
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
by William Dalrymple
10. Since this is a generalized presentation and hence it was not
possible for the author to touch each and every aspect of the topic.
The sources cited in bibliography explicitly and/or implicitly
touch various aspect of colonial consciousness as presented by the
author.
For a detailed account of the given topic, readers may refer to the
given sources.
