Is it possible to do a post-colonial reading of Pride and Prejudice?

Realistically, Pride and Prejudice is the novel of
Austen's least susceptible to post-colonial analysis. To apply a post-colonial reading
to it is more an exercise in critical ingenuity than a major contribution to our
understanding of the novel. The main entry points into the novel for the post-colonial
critic are the episodes involving the military. It is possible to analyze Lydia's
complicity with her own abduction by Wickham as parallel to the complicity of women in
countries colonized by the British in having relationships with their opressors in the
British military. Another line of analysis would be to look at Austen's metaphorical
descriptions of balls as battles and argue that Britain's external colonialism and
militarization affected its internal gender relations by reframing class and gender
within the ideological structure of strategic and militarized
oppression.