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POST COLONIALISM
Post colonialism should be referred to as the legacies of colonialism and not the end of colonialism. British interests in Indian languages arose from the necessity to cultivate the medium of intercourse between the government and its subjects. Lord Macaulay minute on Education 1835 very clearly signifies his agenda that is the Dissemination of the English language and English culture. The Englishmen wanted a class of persons who can act as interpreters between them and their subjects. People who are in Indian in blood and color but English in taste, in opinions ,in morals and in intellect. Under colonialism, a particular section mastered the society. Some historians have also talked about how this led to a creation of a class of uppercast English educated citizens.The british would impose a colonial curriculum on the students.As professor M.K. NAIK points out in his book- A history of Indian English literature- “The IEL began as an interesting by-product of an eventful encounter in the late eighteenth century between a vigorous and enterprising Britain and a stagnant and chaotic India, and now is nearly two hundred years old. It is literature written originally in English by authors Indian in birth, ancestry or nationality. It is no part of English literature any more than American literature or Australian literature can be said to be a branch of British literature. It is legitimately a part of Indian literature , since its differentia is the expression in it of an Indian ethos”.
The decade of 1930s and 1940s was a momentous decade. It was important in the history of freedom struggle as at that particular time the real flowering of Indian literature took place. The national sentiments in india were reaching its peaks and the development of the Indian novels happens simulatenously with the upsurge of freedom struggle. Spread of journalism influenced the Indian literature. A lot of writers were using the Mahatma theme in 1930s and 1940s.Writers such as R.K.

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