Abstract
This paper aims to justify counter hegemonic effects of
hybridity in Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet from the subaltern perspective.
This study explores linguistic, cultural, political and racial hybridization
with its counter hegemonic effects upon the colonizers. The cultural
contact zone is imbibed in ambivalence according to Homi Bhabha,
which differentiates it from the pre-colonial culture. Macaulay’s Minutes
of 1835 provide the basics for the creation of hybrid Indians to sustain
the British Raj. Following his ideology the British writers as Kipling
viewed the British culture and values as a civilizing mission for the
natives. It was intended to produce mimic Indians to extend colonialism
and annihilate resistance of the natives. But in the Quartet hybridity
results in mocking the subjects and consequently acts as a site of
resistance and democratic struggle against colonialism. Hence, the
colonizers get the opposite of what is intended. Bhabha also holds that
imperial ideology is contaminated by hybridity when colonized natives
strike back through appropriation of the Western knowledge. The
Anglicized Hari becomes a staunch anti-colonialist. Daphne established
liaison with Hari and becomes the mother of the hybrid child Pravati.
The western educated Kasim’s family struggles for decolonisation.
Hence, the Quartet draws upon the agency of the Indians as the
subaltern contrary to the stereotypical concepts of the British.
Kifayat Ullah Khan. (2018) Counter Hegemonic Effects of Hybridity in Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet, Journal of Research ( Humanities), Volume LIV , Issue LIV.
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