Volume 18, No. 6, 2021
Implicit Meanings Of Symbols: A Post-Colonial Critique Of Ahmad Ali’s Twilight In Delhi
Eid Nawaz Khan , Aziz Ullah Khan , Yousaf Kamran Bhatti
Abstract
This paper investigates the implicit values of symbols in Ahmad Ali's Twilight in Delhi from a postcolonial perspective. It investigates how the novel's symbols and phrases reveal the colonizers’ arrogant attitude toward the colonised. The study discovered how the symbols highlight the negative impact of colonization on India's rich culture and the brilliant era of Muslim rule. It also identifies how the meanings and significance of various words, phrases, and statements have symbolic value and how these symbols reflect the suffrage of Muslims during the colonial era. The study illustrates colonised peoples' suppression, their impacted grand culture, and the prevalent conditions during colonization. The novel is viewed through the lens of postcolonialism. The method of critical analysis was used for the study. Finally, the conclusion demonstrates Ali's successful technique in identifying the evils and harms done to Muslim culture by colonisers. The symbols depict the effects of colonial rule in India on the social and familial conditions of Delhi's Muslims. It also depicts the barbarism of colonisers, hybrid issues, cultural distortion, and the dangers of local identity. The thesis opens new ways of reading for the future.
Pages: 6758-6770
Keywords: The study investigates the coded and figurative meanings of symbols, metaphors, various words, phrases, and other expressions that may carry a symbolic value in the novel.