Beyond the Colonial Gaze: Culture, Ideology and Translation Practice

In recent decades, the liberal arts and social sciences have fruitfully come together to generate new meanings about literary/social texts and contexts. In this article, I shall raise the following question: What critical tools and theoretical approaches should we deploy while dealing with our ‘tribal’ texts and contexts in a more just, fair and egalitarian manner? What prism shall we look through while examining the larger issues of culture, ideology and translation practice?