![]() ![]() ![]() There could be perceived a potential feeling of communal, national identity, nurtured by a shared antipathy and bitterness of the British colonial prowess. In a country like India, prior to 1947, most people branded and recognised themselves as 'Indians', against the identity of their British tyrants and tormentors. And with this new awareness, comes the concept of self-expression. ![]() Post-colonialism in Indian English literature can be termed as the continual shaking off of the old skin of Western thought and the emergence of new consciousness and cognisance, critique and celebration. However, the changes came in the pattern of Indian English literature during the post colonial era. The beginning of Indian literature in English, with relation to colonialism, can very much be traced to the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th, by which time English education was more or less steadfastly grounded in the three major centres of British power in India - Kolkata, Chennaiand Mumbai. Post-colonial Indian English literature brings to the fore the stories of the societies that existed. ![]()
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