FROM ANNEXATION TO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AS SEEN IN RUDYARD KIPLING’S KIM (1901) AND E M FORSTER’S A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1924)

Abstract : The current article analyses the British colonialists’ hegemonic attitude and racial discrimination to Indian subjects through Forster’s A passage to India (1924) and Kipling’s Kim (1901). The issue of this investigation seeks to discover as follows: how do the British representatives treat the colonized Indians? What is their attitude towards the indigenous Indians? Furthermore, the aim of this article is to clarify to reader the racial discrimination and misery that the Indian natives had suffered. The study runs on qualitative approach as research methodology. Consequently, its data have been collected and analyzed throughout reading of documents (novels, articles and theses that tackle the same theme). As research theory, it runs on the psychoanalyst approach to account for the conscious of colonialists. The results of this study reveal on one hand the British characters’ hegemony over the natives, and the racial collisions in the two novels on other hand. Keywords: Annexation, Discrimination, Hegemony, Kim, psychoanalytic.