women writers in post colonial india english literature essay The english language is the place where writers can and must work out the problems they describe a two-part process through which writers in the post-colonial world the shadows of tribal creative literature, and now that same language of dominance bears the creative.
{"Image DocumentName": "The English literary canon and post-colonialism Postcolonial India (pp", "Image ImageDescription": "Trevelyan\u2019s and Macaulay\u2019s plans for introducing an English education in India did not succeed in producing a docile pro-British Indian workforce to help run the colony [ They wanted to use English literature education to avoid rebellion and guarantee loyalty to the British Empire]. Instead, in the years to follow, there were successive waves of resistance to British rule, from the British-Sikh Wars of and the Great Indian Rebellion (the Indian Mutiny) of , through Gandhi\u2019s all-India satyagraha (\u2018non-Violent resistance\u2019) campaign and the Jallianwalla Bagh (Amritsar) Massacre of 1919, to the \u2018Quit India\u2019 movement from 1942, which sought, through strikes, demonstrations and mass protests, to expel the British from India. India\u2019s protracted anti-colonial struggle ultimately culminated in independence from Britain in Writing in English in India, by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, a literary critic writing in one of lndia\u2019s national English-language newspapers contributes to on going debates about the place of the English language in India, the status of Indian literature in English vs Indian literature in Indian languages, and the relationship between Indian national identity and Indian literature.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}