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Abstract : This paper examines how the power centers of an epoch of history controls the sociocultural,economic and political discourses of a period. The axiomatic contention ofFoucault – Discourse is Power – is perhaps the pivotal point from where Edward Said begins his enquiry. The paradigm of culture is innate in any ethnic environment andthe phase of occupation can super – impose a Western angle and perspective on the cultural motifs such as thought pattern, religious practices, social customs andconventions even etiquette and dress code in personal domain of the colonised.