HISTORY AND THE POST-COLONIAL TEXTS: A CRITICAL REVIEW
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The present paper challenges the traditional or modernist modes of history and historiography as it has been under severe scrutiny for more than two decades. It is the most important requirement for the post-colonial author to represent the history of the suppressed voices. The problem of history- as those engaged in re-inscribing and relocating their community’s place and traditions- becomes particularly crucial for the post-colonial writer because the history of suppressed people and communities has not been truthfully told.
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