Post colonial feminism, according to Mohanty evolves against power in the following five ways:
1. Resistance against class, colonialism, gender.
2. State and racial formation.
3. Women and multinational corporation.
4. Depiction of women in the developing nations in the writing of developed nations feminists.
One of the ways we acquire knowledge in post colonial spaces is via stories and anecdotes. As Cherri Moraga says, for women of color in the United States, specially Chicana women, theories are stories about the stories of their daily lives and not “high fi” theories like that of Marx’s or Freud’s:
Here is a testimony of a Hindu man on Noakhali:
Testimony of A Hindu
On Ashwain 24th some Muslim criminal hoodlums entered my house in Narayangunj under Ramgunj police station (Narayanpur, 14 Numebr Union) and threatened us in several ways. They constantly pressured us to adopt Islam. Among them were the following: 1) Jonar Baap, incognito 2) Akramali (Ajir house), 3) Late Jabarali Kavira district Narayanpur’s son Jabarali 4) Late Karamuddin of municipality Shivrampur’s son Abdul Rahaman 5) Adbul Aziz Narayanpur, etc. Some of the local individuals and several others unknown hoodlooms came to our house in the morning and threatened us in many ways and at 1:30 in the afternoon forced us to adopt Islam. Some gang came to our house on Saturday, their faces were blackened. They took all the jewelry from my wife and other women in my house. Nothing of my movable property was saved. We are left completely penniless. It was not possible for us to escape as the hoodlums were keeping a close watch on us and were threatening us. We were starving for days. Our loss is roughly Rs 3000. What is most troublesome is that they destroyed some of my important legal documents.
Then the Muslims took my wife and kept her for two days and when they returned her unconscious.
Appealer:
Debendraranjan Kar
Amin
Distinct: Narayanpur
Police Station—Ramgunj
14 Number UB
October 26, 1946
