Article "Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts? (Christine Porcaro, Week 8, Substantive)

In the article by Dipesh Chakrabarty what I found interesting was the the excerpt from the Bengali text on women's education from 1877. The view of the "Indian" household to the "European" household showed how the Indians viewed the Europeans power. When India was colonized by the British the idea of power, freedom, right, wrong , smart, stupid, wealthy, poor...was all constructed through the eyes of the colonizer and then forced upon the people who were colonized. In this excerpt the "Indian" household is looked at in such a negative light while the "European" house is regarded as the ideal. This reading really got me thinking about the relations between first and third world countries(these names in themselves help show what the article was saying). In first world countries such as the US, when regarding third world countries all that is looked at is how they have failed to reach the same status as first world countries. What is ignored a lot of the time is the effects that these countries have been shaped by the former colonial powers that exploited the land, people and power of these now third world countries. Post-colonialism is very interesting to me because we seem to forget that yes colonialism in its original sense is over but its affects seem to be of lasting impact on the international system.