{"id":232083,"date":"2023-03-17T19:43:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=232083"},"modified":"2023-03-17T19:43:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T14:13:10","slug":"the-colonial-past-is-still-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-colonial-past-is-still-relevant\/","title":{"rendered":"The colonial past is still relevant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cThe colonial past is still relevant\u201d <\/strong>published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d <\/strong>on 16th March 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS1- Colonization and decolonization<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>– Colonial legacies and associated challenges<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>– Colonialism remains a relevant factor in understanding the problems and the dangers of the present world.<\/p>\n

What are the challenges related to colonialism in modern times?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The residual problems from the end of the earlier era of colonization remain unresolved<\/strong>. The conflicts in western Sahara, Jammu and Kashmir, Cyprus and Palestine are legacies of colonialism. \u00a0<\/strong>The factors responsible for these events in the colonial era have the potential to reignite conflicts<\/strong>. The war between Ethiopia and Eritrea was due to undefined colonial borders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Intellectual history of colonialism<\/strong>– It is the cause of more recent conflicts. For example – the Belgian classification of Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda and Burundi<\/strong> continues to haunt the region of the African Great Lakes.<\/p>\n

The British invention of \u201cmartial races\u201d<\/strong> in India is another example. Colonial rulers promoted the policy of \u201cdivide and rule<\/strong>\u201d. It promoted political divisions<\/strong> between Hindus and Muslims that led to the tragedy of Partition.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colonial-era distinctions:<\/strong> Such colonial era distinctions were accompanied by an unequal distribution of the resources<\/strong> of the state within colonial society. For example,<\/strong> Belgian colonialists favoured Tutsis. It led to Hutu rejecting them as foreign supporters.<\/p>\n

In the present such example, Sinhalese <\/strong>were against privileges enjoyed by the Tamils<\/strong> in the colonial era in Sri Lanka. It prompted the discriminatory policies<\/strong> after Independence and the Tamil revolt.<\/p>\n

Mixed colonial history<\/strong>– It is also a potential source of danger<\/strong>. When a state has more than one colonial past, its future is vulnerable.<\/p>\n

Ethnicity or language hardly seem to be a factor in the secessions of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. Rather, it was different colonial experiences<\/strong> that separated them from the rest of their ethnic compatriots.<\/p>\n

A similar example is Yugoslavia, made up of regions that had been under different empires<\/strong>. A Part of the country had been under Austro-\u00adHungarian rule<\/strong> for 800 years. Other regions were under Ottoman suzerainty. in 1991, a war erupted between these 2 regions in the country.<\/p>\n

Border issues<\/strong>– Boundaries drawn in colonial times still create enormous problems of national unity<\/strong>, especially in Africa. Civil conflict along ethnic or regional lines can arise when the challenge of nation\u00ad building within colonial drawn boundaries<\/strong> becomes insurmountable.<\/p>\n

colonial powers drew national boundaries in an arbitrary way<\/strong>. Older tribal and clan loyaltie<\/strong>s in Africa were destroyed by the boundaries drawn by the west<\/strong>.\u00a0 Civil wars happen when local leaders challenge a \u201cnational\u201d leade<\/strong>r whose nationalism fails to resonate across his country.<\/p>\n

Crisis of governance<\/strong>– State failure in the wake of colonialism is another evident source of conflict. It is a by\u00adproduct of the newly independent state\u2019s inability to govern. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The crisis of governance in many African countries is cause for concern in world affairs today. <\/strong>The collapse of effective central governments in Sierra Leone and South Sudan, Liberia and Somalia can lead to alarming possibilities.<\/p>\n

Underdevelopment in post colonial societies<\/strong> is itself a cause of conflict. The uneven development of infrastructure<\/strong> in a poor country for the benefit of the colonialists has led to uneven distribution of resources. It leads to increasing fissures in a society<\/strong> between neglected regions\u201d and better served regions.<\/p>\n

Advancing underdevelopment in many countries of the South has created conditions of desperate poverty, ecological collapse and rootless, unemployed populations.<\/strong> These are beyond the control of\u00a0 state systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cThe colonial past is still relevant\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 16th March 2023. Syllabus: GS1- Colonization and decolonization Relevance– Colonial legacies and associated challenges News– Colonialism remains a relevant factor in understanding the problems and the dangers of the present world. What are the challenges related… Continue reading The colonial past is still relevant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,10498],"class_list":["post-232083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}