Epistemic Violence of Colonialism and Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Even though colonialism is seen as the political and cultural hegemony of Western nations over the non-Western, leading to colonised suffering due to the draining of resources from the non-West to the West, the tangible manifestation of colonial violence can be seen at the epistemic level, where the hegemonic presence of Western scientific knowledge, discourse, ideology, and ways of interpreting and understanding the world is seen as the only valid parameter for knowing the world. The paper “Epistemic Violence of Colonialism and Nineteenth-Century Bengal” looks at how India suffered due to colonial presence in ways epistemically more violent than what is manifest in most discourse(s) on colonialism

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