This document provides background information on colonialism, imperialism, and post-colonialism from various academic sources and definitions. It discusses how colonialism originally referred to Roman settlements but later described the European conquest and control of other lands and goods from the 16th century onward. Imperialism differed in that it pertained to rule under an empire, often in a despotic manner. Post-colonialism refers to the aftermath of colonial rule and the complex ideological disengagement from colonial influences, though the precise beginning of the post-colonial era is debated.

1. A background reading : Ania Loomba’s
(colonialism/post-colonialism)
Name : Upadhyay Devangana S.
Paper : The Postcolonial Literature
Stander : M.A.
Semester : 03
Enrolment No : PG13101035
Department : English
Submitted To: MKB University
upadhyaydevangana27@gmail.com

2. According to Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Colonialism – comes from Roman word ‘Colonia’
- Meant ‘farm’ or ‘settlement’
Referred to Romans who settled in other lands

3. “A settlement in a new country…… a body of people who
settle
In a new locality, forming a community subject to or
connected
With their parent state descendants and successors, as long
as
The connection with the parent state is kept up.”
-According to OED

4. Colonialism can be defined as the can conquest and
control of other people’s land and goods.
European powers into Asia, Africa or the Americans from
The sixteenth century on wards.
Marxist – (1) Capitalism
(2) Restructured the economies of the latter, complex relationship
Flow of human and natural resources between colonized & colonial countries.
Work in
Slaves In denatured labour
Flows of Profits
Economic imbalance that was necessary for the growth of European

5. Imperialism
The distinction between pre-capitalist and capitalist colonialism is often made
by referring to the latter as imperialism.
English Language: ‘Command’ or ‘Superior power’
OED- Imperial as ‘pertaining to empire’
Imperialism as ‘rule of an emperor especially when despotic or arbitrary,
The principal or spirit of empire,
Advocacy of what are held to be imperial interests.

6. Lenin & Kausky : “Imperialism the Highest stage of
Capitalism”
Neo-imperialism or neo-colonialism are used to
describe these situation
Imperialism & colonialism how they are different?

7. Post-colonialism
Different understanding of colonialism and imperialism
complicate the meanings of the term ‘Postcolonial’.
Word – ‘Post’- implied ‘aftermath’
Temporal as in
coming after
Ideological as in
Supplanting
 The new global order does not depend upon direct rule
 The economic, cultural & political penetration of some countries by other
 Once-colonized countries can be seen as properly ‘post-colonial’.

8. Ella Shohat, trenchantly asks : “When exactly then does the
‘post-colonial’ begin?”
Another issue is takes place – Problem with ‘Colonial’
(1) What came before colonial rule?
(2) What indigenous, ideologies, practices and hierarchies
alongside colonialism and interacted what it?
Post-colonialism – use only we use it with caution and qualification.
This it can be compared to the concept of ‘Patriarchy’ in feminist
thought
Post-colonial – it refers to a process of disengagement from the
Whole colonial syndrome.

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