Colonial Paradigm in the Western Narrative Angle: An Evaluation

Abstract

Abstract

This paper examines how the power centers of an epoch of history controls the socio-cultural, economic and political discourses of a period. The axiomatic contention of Foucault - Discourse is Power - is perhaps the pivotal point from where Edward Said begins his enquiry. The paradigm of culture is innate in any ethnic environment and the phase of occupation can super - impose a Western angle and perspective on the cultural motifs such as thought pattern, religious practices, social customs and conventions even etiquette and dress code in personal domain of the colonised.