ABSTRACT
An examination of the way in which colonial relations have influenced the post-colonial period presents the historian with a number of problems of definition, of method and of interpretation. Although he is by his training drawn towards the analysis of the particular and concrete and often distrustful of ready-made theoretical frameworks, nevertheless he is anxious to bring out both the individual instances as well as general tendencies. In this subject he is bound to be struck by the range and number of factors to be considered and by the varied ways in which in different countries they can be seen to act upon each other.
