what was the impact of colonalism on novels??
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Novels as a form of literary writing emerged in Europe at the time when Europe was involved in colonising different parts of the world. Early novels contained elements of colonialism which make the readers feel that they belonged to a superior race.
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is an example of a novel promoting colonialism. The hero of his novel Robinson was a adventurer and slave trader.Shipwrecked on an island, he treated the coloured people as inferior to him. He rescued a native and makes him his slave. He was rude ad arrogant towards him. The writer's projection was not considered as unusual because colonialism was seen as natural.Colonial rule was imposed to make the colonised people civilised as they were primitive, inhuman and barbaric.
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he establishment of the colonial rule in India brought about an administrative cohesion among the various regions of this vast sub-continent. To run this complex and difficult administration of a vast region of India, the colonial rulers tried to create an English knowing class of people.