Colonisation is often reduced to the occupation of land, the killing and enslavement of people, but South Asia stands as a prime example that the coloniser also colonises the minds and ideas of people ...
Post-mortems abound. Around the Andean fringes of Amazonia planned colonisation has been written off with monotonous regularity as stillborn or prematurely dead; inevitably 'failure'. But success and ...
It is hard to accept that India would have remained stagnant but for the colonial rule. Actually, we may have modernised ...