The Subcontinental Postcolonialism – a Counternarrative (Part 1, ‘Pakistan’)
The Subcontinental Postcolonialism – a Counternarrative (Part 1, ‘Pakistan’)

Summary/Abstract: The present article is an attempt to redefine the boundaries of postcolonial discourses in the Indian Subcontinent. The scientific survey of the political and cultural evolution of the Subcontinent gives a clear picture that the traditional narratives of essentialist and postcolonial theories have ceased to mean much in Indian and Pakistani contexts. The article offers fresh insights into the works of contemporary English writers from South Asia and rephrases the term ‘Postcolonial Studies’ in South Asian context as ‘Post-independence Studies’. ‘Postcoloniality’ is redefined here as a behaviour of mind (often of hypnotic and hyperbolic mind) which evolved over the past half a century, evaluating the nature of the complexity of the colonizer and the colonized relationship. Postcolonialism is described here as ‘an oddity’. The current origin of the social and cultural crisis of Indian and Pakistani societies needs to be traced back to the first and the second waves of colonization, the Arabic invasion of India in 712 CE and the Central Asian conquests in 948 CE. The British colonial era, it seems, is of lesser significance and of little relevance in Indian Subcontinent today.

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