Domination and Exploitation: The Primary Aims or the By-Products of Colonization?

Abstract

Domination and colonization are the terms closely related to each other as they are inseparable in the sense that when colonization comes into being, it either aims at domination or domination becomes the by-product of colonization itself. Hence, my paper will focus on the purpose of colonization and its inevitable outcome that is, domination that may or may not be the primary aim of colonization but without which colonization ceases to survive. Colonization, in general, comprised of people whose primary aim was to settle elsewhere, earn their livelihood and pass a better life there. To maintain these, again the colonizers become despotic and dominant over the colonized. Though the critics, historians and post-colonial theorists often characterize colonization as the means of subjugation of one race by the other, colonization was in fact a solution to a social problem which is to save large number of population in Europe in general and in United Kingdom in particular from an anticipated civil war. Colonization thus expands the empire for the settlement of the surplus population and for economic and political stability of the settler country. I will cite the canonical literary texts, theories and publications on colonialism and postcolonialism to show that colonization was not just a means of exploitation of the black natives by the white, but also a means of survival of a vast number of populations of Europe. The purpose of my research is to show that colonization comes into being not only to dominate and exploit others, but also to help survive and expand the empires for their own necessity and existence. Domination and exploitation are thus evolved as the by-products of colonization as they are the means and tools for the large empire to survive.