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Item Colonial Vestiges in The Inheritance of Loss: A Postcolonial Reading(Department of English, 2009) Adhikari, Raj KumarKiran Desai's first novelTheInheritance of Loss(2006), by presenting the people, climate andculture of Kalimpong, mixed with Indians andNepalese, mostly through the elitist and distant metropolitan perspective, and consequently in a darker light than they might have been, draws a totally negative picture of everything of Nepaleseboth in Indian and Nepal. The disgusting exotic images of these people do nothing to counter balance the colonialism but such attempts come to nothing in the finalanalysis. Thepersonal biases and slants of the author, as well as the motive behind attempting the workin the first place greatly influence the tone of the work. As brought up in the western hemisphere, she is unable to maintain a neutral position while treating the issues of a colonized country. The misrepresentation of the country also results from the fact that she wrote the novel primarily for the western readership.Item Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer : A Study In Colonial Psyche(Department of English, 2009) Bhusal, Narendra KumarNot AvailableItem Misrepresentation of “Others” in Orwell’s Burmese Days(Faculty of English, 2011) Regmi, Laxmi PrasadColonial discourses have created various images to represent the Eastern countries and people as the others. It establishes a created form of reality in the readers' mind. It functions as a power to dominate, educate and govern over the non-western countries. Behind every misrepresentation, there lies the motive of colonization and dominate the Orient. Colonial discourses have functioned as power to create hierarchy of race and color that assist the colonizers to centralize them and inferiorize others, which provides an approach to project Westerners' stereotypes of others. George Orwell's Burmese Days textualizes the misrepresentation of Burma and Burmese people. Orwell has partially expressed his love-hate attitudes towards the Burmese people and the white imperialists through his characters. In this sense, the novel shows how Orwell detested imperialism and the native people as well. It also reveals his colonial mentality; i.e. how he shares the sense of superiority as the white race. Beside this, he presents the white characters as superior beings and the Burmese characters as helpless and worthless inferior beings. So through these misrepresentations of Burmese people, Orwell tries to justify the mission of colonization as the mission of civilization.