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Write short note on Colonial hangover and its social impact.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

"Colonial hangover" names a sociological fact rather than a grievance: political sovereignty was transferred in 1947, but the institutions, classifications and self-images built under colonial rule were not. Frantz Fanon, in Black Skin, White Masks (1952), showed why the last of these is the hardest to shed — domination survives as an internalised measure of…

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  • The institutional residue
  • The residue in categories
  • The residue in the mind
  • Undoing it
  • Conclusion

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