Yanis Iqbal is a student and freelance writer based in Aligarh and is interested in studying the existential conditions of subaltern classes. He can be contacted at yanisiqbal AT gmail.com
A culture of silence provides us with an important insight into the nature of hegemony: control over the population is best maintained through complicity in one’s own oppression.
Since present-day states are similar to colonial states that practised coercion, the experiences of anti-colonial struggle might be used to inspire struggle against today’s emerging state form.
