• Waseem Hassan Malik

  Author

• Dr. Tariq Umrani

  Author

Post-colonial theory and literature feature different methods of intellectual discourse
to analyze, explain, and to respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism, to the
human consequences of controlling a territory and establishing settler colonies for the political
and economic exploitation of the native people and their land. The present study is a textual
analysis of Muneeza Shamsie’s short story That Heathen Air (2005) by applying different critical
concepts from Post-colonial theory such as comprador, double colonization and the role of
English language in the colonial agenda. The study argues that in the colonial India, the men
from the Muslim nobility happily adapted to the culture and ways of the colonizer whereas their
women resisted the hegemonic cultural practices of the imperial masters. Though doubly
colonized, yet they continued with their struggle against the patriarchy and at the same time
tried to preserve their native culture.

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