Culture 2

In the Arts of the Contact Zone, Mary Louise Pratt has tried to explain the concepts of the “contact zone”, which she referred to as “the space of colonial encounters”. This social space that she speaks about is a stage where “disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination”. Pratt aims to highlight these relations between the colonizer and the colonized “in terms of copresence, interaction, …showed first 75 words of 523 total…

…showed last 75 words of 523 total…Mughal Empire. This left the country in a situation of political unrest and uncertainty. The British had an image of themselves as to be constitutional people and felt that they had every right to the country. They thought Indians were ‘benighted heathen’ who must be saved from themselves. Hence, capitalizing on the situation in India, the British plunged into battle, and emerged victorious. Thus, established British rule over the state of India and its territories.