Colonialism In English Literature Essay

Mulk Raj Anand’s Indian English Literature till 1970 was the product of a time of great transition and change. The decades of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s witnessed shattering changes, as during this time there was the simultaneous discussions on both nationalism and colonialism and India was being forced to face the advent of modernity. Literature produced during this period shows a gradual transition from the public to the private. Anand, Narayan, and Raja Rao were aware of the public specialty of which their fiction would be a part and on the other hand Desai and Markandaya seem interested in staging the private world of individualism for a global audience.
The beginning of Indian literature in English, with relation to colonialism can

Dalit is also a Marati word for those who have been broken, ground down by those above them in a deliberate and active way. James Massey in Roots states:
“A concise History of Dalits, explained Dalit, as the burst, the split, the broken are torn asunder the crushed down, the scattered, the crushed and the destroyed. So it suggests an afflicted and struggling people.” The present use of the term originated from the nineteenth century Marathi social reformer Mahatma Jyotirao Phule who used the word in connection with the suppressed. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, a well renowned Dalit leader, and the architect of the constitution, said that the word describes the oppressed and broken victims of the caste-ridden society. This term specifies the outcastes and despised community. During the 1970’s, the Dalit panther movement of Maharashtra described it more broadly as “members of Scheduled caste, Scheduled Tribe”, Neo-Buddhists, the working people, the landless and poor peasants, woman and all those who are being exploited politically, economically and in the name of religion”. So Dalits are exclusively the socially marginalized people of