From A Golden Sparrow to A Caged Bird

Colonialism is not merely a political domination over the native majority. It also refers to the cultural subjugation of the natives to the dominant minority. Colonialism paints a vivid picture of the never- ending desires of the colonizer and the misery of the colonized whose lives are at the mercy of the dominant few. Colonialism describes the process of European settlement and political control over the rest of the world, including the Americas, Australia, and parts of Africa and Asia. It discusses the distinction between colonialism and imperialism and states that "given the difficulty of consistently distinguishing between the two terms, this entry will use colonialism as a broad concept that refers to the project of European political domination from the sixteenth to the twentieth century that ended with the national liberation movements of the 1960s. This article is an insight into the social and economic subjugation of the Indian masses during the colonial rule.