Nehruvian science and postcolonial India.

Postcolonial penality: Liberty and repression in the shadow of independence, India c. 1947

This article reports primary archival data on the colonial penal history of British India and its reconfiguration into the postcolonial Indian state. It introduces criminologists to frameworks through which postcolonial scholars have sought to make sense of the continuities and discontinuities of rule across the colonial/postcolonial divide. The article examines the postcolonial life of one exa...

Texts and Politics: Postcolonial Revaluations of two British Classics

The major argument of this essay is that Kipling treats the colonial subject as the "other," and Forster proves to be almost as pro-Empire as writers like Kipling. Nevertheless, A Passage to India is eloquent in rejecting British values and introducing Indian voices. This novel records a shift in attitude in terms of exposing the bitter realities about and attitudes of British imperialists. Des...

The Practice of Femicide in Postcolonial India and the Discourse of Population Control within the Nation State

The selective killing of the female fetus in postcolonial India has received serious commitment from activists in the Indian women’s movement(s) but scant rhetorical and theoretical analysis. This omission in postcolonial feminist theory is curious given the fact that the Indian women’s movements were the first organized groups in the 1970s and 1980s to call attention to the use of new reproduc...

What is Postcolonial Literature ?

In a broad sense, postcolonial literature is writing which has been “affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day” (Ashcroft et al, 2). In India’s case, this includes novels, poetry, and drama which were written both during and after the British Raj or “Reign,” which came to a formal conclusion with Indian Independence in August 1947. Although writing from...

Postcolonial identity in a globalizing India: case studies in visual, musical and oral culture