Question

What do you understand by de-colonization ? Explain the various approaches towards decolonisation. ?

Answer 1

Decolonization, Process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country. Decolonization was gradual and peaceful for some British colonies largely settled by expatriates but violent for others, where native rebellions were energized by nationalism.

International context approach

According to the approach highlighting the international context of decolonization, empires could not survive in the new world order after the Second World War.

Domestic constraints approach

The metropolitan or domestic constraints approach focuses on how the colony became too big a burden on the mother country. From being the proverbial goose which laid golden eggs a time came when it was not worth expending money and men on it. British colonialism, it is argued by Holland, ‘became dysfunctional to the operational necessities of the metro pole.’

Answer 2

Decolonization (US) or decolonisation (UK) is the undoing of colonialism, where a nation establishes and maintains its domination over dependent territories.