Colonialism and Social Change: Structure of Society and its Construction during Colonial Period in Chagai District

Abstract

As a result of establishing a centralized administration in South Asia, colonial powers were able to introduce new policies and practices that radically transformed the lives of the population they subjugated. Balochistan was an outlier in that its society didn't change much while a few, the aristocratic elite, were changed. In this piece, I will make an effort to learn about and understand the colonial-era culture and society of the Chagai area. The situation was the same in the district Chagai, where only the upper class had access to the tribal system. This paper delves further into the history, anthropological development, religion and religious shifts, language, education, and economics of the Chagai people. The main objective of this article is to understand the process of socio-cultural transformation during the colonial period in Balochistan which had been stagnant in the arena of culture and society. The research methods applied in this research study is the qualitative and historical research methods. The results of the research shows that the culture and society was not changed at large rather than an elite group was created.