Negotiating Postcolonial Aspects in Manjula Padmanavan’s Harvest

Abstract

Post colonialism simply focused on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands. It aims to expose the themes and representatives that have imposed imperial ideology, colonial dominance, and western hegemony. This study attempts to explore the post colonial aspects in the play Harvest by Manjula Padmanabhan. Using post colonial motifs and themes like cultural dominance, surveillance etc, and the paper explores how the people of the Third World are subjected to subjugation at the hands of the powerful people of the First World. Besides the paper aims to demonstrate that colonizing the mind is a constant process and there was also opposition to the First World influences.