The paper elaborates on the panoptic modality of power (pg 244) through how the
Colonial system was highly reliant on discipline and conformity as a medium to
exercise power and the apparent elitism that is on display even in today’s context in
an establishment such as the Turf Club (a site of British origin).
This essay wishes to
observe how power is regulated through Foucauldian ideas of gaze and surveillance
and how it exhibits Panopticism as a disciplinary power.