Studies in Indian Place Names (UGC Care Journal) ISSN: 2394-3114 Vol-40-Issue-70-March -2020 Page | 1088 Copyright ⓒ 2020Author The Impacts of Colonialism on the Colonized and the Colonizer: A Study on E.M.Forster's A Passage to India and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness Dr. Ajay.S. Deshmukh Ebrahim Mohammed Mansoor Almhab Research Guide, Associate Professor Research Scholar Department of English, Department of English, Faculty of Arts Shri Mukotanand College, Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Marthwada University Gangapur, Dist- Aurangbad Aurangabad- 431001, Maharashtra 431109 - Maharashtra Email: almhab75@gmail.com Email: ajayd802@gmail.com Abstract Colonialism is a system of rules which assumes the right of one people to impose their will to another. European powers colonized third world countries such as Rome, Greece, Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark. India was colonized by the British because of its strategic location on the continent of Asia. The Belgian Empire colonized the African Congo under the name of civilizing and educating Africans. Thus, India and Congo experienced domination and exploitation of colonialism under the Great Britain and the Belgian Empire. Colonialism as study of the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized effected both of the colonizer and the colonized. This paper aims at exploring the impacts of colonialism on the British and European colonizer as well as African and Indian colonized. The paper deals with impacts of colonialism on African and Indian people with reference to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and E.M. Forster’s Passage to India. The qualitative research methodology is used in this study and the data and materials are collected from books, articles, magazines and relevant websites. Keywords: colonialism, colonizer, colonized, Exploitation, superiority, inferiority. Introduction: Colonialism comes from ”clonia” the Roman term which means “farm” or “settlement” and refers to the Romans who settled in lands. It is considered as the expansion of a nation over foreign territories through forcible occupation. This phenomenon began in the fifteenth century and developed in the late nineteenth century. Oxford English Dictionary, defines colonialism as “the policy or practice of acquiring political control over country occupying it with settlers and exploring it economically”. Longman Dictionary defines colonialism as “A situation whereby a powerful country rules a weaker one and establishes its own trade and society there.” (Longman Dictionary,2000). It is defined as “exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one or the use of