Post Colonial Perspectives in Badal Sircar's Indian History Made Easy

adal Sircar is the most Proli c playwright of the post-Independence period. He
has written and published many street plays in Bengali. His plays portay the very
minute aspects and themes of post colonialism. He discloses the pathetic condition
of the contemporary society in his plays. He founded the new form of theater called
the “Street Theater”. Badal Sircar as a playwright has his chief focus and attention
on post colonialism. He discusses about its impacts on our country through his plays
that are written in fragments without any connection. Badal Sircar has focused
on the colonial rule of the British in India in Indian History Made Easy. British
came in to India during the Mughal period in the name of business. The British got
permission to do business in India. Gradually, the British got a strong hold of our
country by controlling the economic and political systems of India. They imposed
their traditional, cultural, political and economic values on the colonised in India
during the colonial period which had created a negative impact in the lives of the
Indians even in the post colonial era.