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In the Arts of the Contact Zone, Mary Louise Pratt has tried to explain the concepts of the "contact zone", which she referred to as "the space of colonial encounters". This social space that she speaks about is a stage where "disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination". Pratt aims to highlight these relations between the colonizer and the colonized "in terms of copresence, interaction, interlocking understandings and practices". There often are conflicts of views and ideas; the very concept of existence maybe apprehended differently by the two involved subjects in the "contact zone".The inability of the colonizer to comprehend the cultural sentiments or the intentional ignorance for selfish interests, towards the colonized subjects has often given rise to great revolutions and bitter revolts. To illustrate this idea, one might examine the "colonial encounter" between the British and the Indians.......

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