The course on Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse will offer students the opportunity to study the history of European colonialism and how it impacted the society, politics, economy and culture of colonized nations. It will also focus on the resistance movements in these nations that took diverse forms –from armed and non-violent resistance, such as MK Gandhi’s non-cooperation movement, and literary and cultural productions challenging colonialism to mass migrations that signaled a dismissal of the entire structure of colonialism. Political and cultural discourses of the colonized countries also spurned the so called ‘civilizing mission’ of the Europeans which attempted to transform the colonized societies in the image of Europe. Although by the 1980s nearly all formerly colonized countries and territories became independent, they continued to be haunted by the specter of colonialism at multiple levels.