Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2018

TREATMENT OF CROSS-CULTURAL FRIENDSHIP IN E.M.FOSTER‘S A PASSAGE TO INDIA

Dr. S. S. Srinivasan

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 Keeping a big nation as that of India with a population of varied culture, religion, language, ethnicity and caste and creed constantly under its sway demanded very many techniques from the imperial power. Hence, the British always sought to supplement their control of the Indian empire through a web of hegemonic practices involving subtle strategies of cultural manipulation. Knowledge of Indian culture, ideology, ethnology, ethnography, anthropology and the geography of India helped the British colonizers to build up a powerful discourse. Very often books of science, fiction, technology and even the Bible were used as epistemological techniques for control. Books of literature also helped furnish the bourgeois epistemological knowledge for colonialists. They were used to exploit the people intellectually. They were also used to shape the style of thoughts of the colonized

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Dr.S.S.SRINIVASAN, TREATMENT OF CROSS-CULTURAL FRIENDSHIP IN E.M.FOSTER'S A PASSAGE TO INDIA, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-7, ISSUE-1, JANUARY-2018

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