Aayalakkandy, Y: Plays of Asif Currimbhoy: A Reading in Post

Colonialism is the conquest and control of other people's land and lives. Not limited to the incursion of various European powers into Asia, Africa or the Americas alone, it is a continuous, widespread feature of human history. Leela Gandhi remarks: "Colonialism marks the historical process whereby the West attempts systematically to cancel or negate the cultural difference and value of the 'non-west'". India was one of the "productive colonies" for the West,and its natives mere "human material". The Orient was treated as "alien and unusual", c ...