CHAPTER 7
Colonialism in Comparative Perspective: Forms and Dimensions
Ruchi Shree and Pushpa Singh
Reader’s Guide
The chapter attempts to unravel the complexities of colonialism as a conceptual category as well as its practice in comparative perspective. It highlights the contestations over its meaning and the problems arising due to its proximity with other concepts such as imperialism and capitalism. Colonialism as a historical process with its time span of around five centuries affected almost every part of the world. It is said to have profound impact on the socio-political, economic, cultural and psychological aspects of life of the colonized people. The emergence of postcolonialism as an interdisciplinary area of study could be seen ...
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