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Foundations Of Indian Heritage Chapter 1- DECOLONISATION Decolonization Removing Colonization is Decolonization What is the Colonisation is a definition of practice that most Colonialism? countries in the worl...

Foundations Of Indian Heritage Chapter 1- DECOLONISATION Decolonization Removing Colonization is Decolonization What is the Colonisation is a definition of practice that most Colonialism? countries in the world have experienced at  Colonialism: The some point in time. practice or policy of control by one Exceptions like people or power Ethiopia, Nepal, over other people or areas, often by Japan, Afghanistan, establishing colonie s and generally with Bhutan, Saudi the aim of Arabia, economic dominance. Liberia, Tonga, Colonialism  In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their religion, language, economics, and Belgium other cultural practices. United Kingdom, France,  The foreign administrators Germany, Italy rule the territory in pursuit of their interests, seeking to Japan, Netherlands, benefit from the colonised region’s people and Denmark resources.  The major Colonizers are: Portugal, Spain Result of Colonisation  The colonizer does not only distort the history of the colonized, slaughter their knowledge systems and empty their heads of self-confidence and their hearts of the emotional stamina to live without colonial domination. But he goes ahead to manufacture accusations and labels against the colonized... Thus we reach a wider definition of colonization that we need to bother about..  1. Political and Economic Control, with Violence  2. Transfer of population of the colonizer  3. Contempt for the Native  4. Process of Culture Change  5. Distortion of History  6. Distortion of Knowledge Systems  7. Being Categorized (as primitive, underdeveloped etc.) The Colonisers https://www.britannica.com/biographies/history/colonialism  The coloniser does not only distort the history of the colonised, slaughter their knowledge systems and empty their heads of self-confidence and their hearts of the emotional stamina to live without colonial domination. But he goes ahead to manufacture accusations and labels against the colonised. Decolonization  Decolonization is about “cultural, psychological, and economic freedom for Indigenous people with the goal of achieving Indigenous sovereignty — the right and ability of Indigenous people to practice self-determination over their land, cultures, and political and economic systems. Many countries got Decolonized by two ways Negotiated Independence – India, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Niger, Ghana, Armed resistance – Algeria, Vietnam, Egypt etc. 75 countries got decolonized between 1940 – 1965 Decolonization studies explain colonization in Detail 1. Political and Economic Control, with Violence 2. Transfer of population of the coloniser 3. Contempt for the Native 4. Process of Culture Change 5. Distortion of History 6. Distortion of Knowledge Systems 7. Being Categorised (as primitive, underdeveloped etc.)  Even though many of the colonies are politically independent and under self-rule. But they are yet to free themselves from mental subjugation. Many colonised societies are yet to identify the effect of colonial rule on their psyche and rather focus on resolving the issues in their societies based on the colonial descriptions. This phenomenon is termed as Colonial Consciousness.  British in  INDIA There were only 31,000 Britons in India in 1805 (of whom 22,000 were in the army and 2,000 in civil government).  As of 1890, 6,000 British officials ruled 250 million Indians, with some 70,000 European soldiers and a larger number of Indians in uniform.  In 1911, there were 164,000 Britons living in India (of whom 66,000 were in the army and police and just 4,000 in civil government).  By 1931, this had gone up to just 168,000 (including 60,000 in the army and police and still only 4,000 in civil government) to run a country approaching 300 million people. Taking Notice of Colonisation The Monoculture  1. Language  2. Dress  3. Aesthetics - Ornaments, art, etc.  4. Architecture  5. Food (medicine, ecosystem)  6. Divine and the Sacred What we Lost?  Educational System  Self Identity  Languages  Customs  IKS Inability to Access Indian Knowledge Systems  from our culture (Indian Knowledge Systems), and had us connect  to the culture of the coloniser (Coloniser Knowledge Systems)  instead.  And hence when we try to define any such terms, unable  to access IKS, we automatically go to CKS (where we establish a  weak connection).  In our case, the Coloniser Knowledge Systems  is primarily the English or British Knowledge systems. The Lost Educational System