Importance Of Colonization In Colonial Novel

By takings Aziz’s side, Fielding steps over this line. This is because an Englishman should never take the side of an Indian, irrelevant of whether he is guilty or not. He is advised to stick with his own kind. In stepping out of line, he not only loses his own self, but he puts his fellow Englishmen at risk.
Through the victory of the Indians after the trial, for the first time in the history of the English colony in the novel, the English are proved not to be always superior. The Indians finally get some power. Yet Nawab and Bahadur, the wiser of the Indians, realise that they would gain nothing by attacking the English. The English have fallen into their own pit, and are well aware of this. These two Indian men feel that it is better not

The colonized people were perceived as secondary, abject, weak and feminine. Colonisation could be seen as a struggle of the British to become the superior race. It was not only the struggle of the white against the blacks. It was also a conflict of masculinity. The local Indians were assumed to be docile, submissive, receptive, gentle, seductive, dull, and effeminate, especially when compared to the male colonisers. India is portrayed as feminine. Boehmer describes it as a “woman country” (Boehmer 1995:

Their appearance plays an important part in bringing the novel to a conclusion. It is the duty of the servitor to bring the celebration of Krishna’s birthday to an end by pushing the clay images of Krishnas’s family into the water. At this point, the two boats containing Fielding and his wife, Aziz and Stella’s brother, collide with each other and these boats drifted towards the servitor; “who awaited them, his beautiful dark face expressionless, and as the last morsels melted on his tray it struck them” (Forster 1979: