The following discourse tries to analyze Charles Alllen’s Plain Tales from the Raj: a collection of memoirs by a representative of the colonizers during the fag end of the British Raj in India. What better way is there for this discourse to appear than in a Journal published in Shimla which is replete with signs of the Raj strewn all over, apart from the grand testimony it holds by way of the ViceRegal Lodge (the monumental Palace) whence the Raj ruled the rest of India in the summer months and which today, standing tall, houses the famous Indian Institute of Advanced Study on Summer Hill. Theory today seems to have absolved colonialism of its manifold sins, its recorded atrocities on the colonized. For if one takes a broad view of history, one witnesses civilizations clashing, often with a motive of conquest, sometimes intent on maneuvering themselves into positions of hegemonic control over others. The clash of civilizations that Samuel Huntington talks about is not surely new to history. But when conquest and hegemony both fail, then what occurs, if not overtly, is a covert dialogue through which far reaching changes might occur in both the clashing entities. Ancient history comes up with myriad instances of such covert or tacit geo-cultural occurrences. TRS Sharma

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