Assistant Professor, Department of English, Krishnaveni Engineering College, Narasaraopet, Andhra Pradesh, India
Online published on 11 July, 2017.
The aim of European imperialism and colonialism was to expand economic and power base of European nations to many countries across the globe and assert superiority over them. Later, colonisation gave rise to a language hierarchy in which the languages of the colonisers, the British in particular, were imposed as the most prestigious languages and came to dominate the administrative and mercantile structure of each colony.
