去殖民化印度门户

IF 0.6 Q2 AREA STUDIES

South Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-01-07 DOI:10.1177/02627280221141045

Rajeev Kumaramkandath

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摘要

这篇文章探讨了一个殖民时期的纪念碑，孟买的印度门户，前孟买，如何继续携带并被赋予一个错位的印度社会历史体现的标题。这座纪念碑建于20世纪20年代，绝对是一座宏伟的建筑作品，它继续秉承着错误的演绎，将印度庞大的社会历史局限在殖民时期，以盎格鲁为中心。由于这座纪念碑象征着对殖民政权的记忆，它也象征着它的压迫以及它从次大陆的退出，而不是见证任何人来到印度，除了1911年的乔治国王，正如纪念碑的名字所暗示的那样。作为殖民主义的一种记忆工具，这个误导性的标签需要认真地重新审视，因为它不仅将殖民历史浪漫化，而且未能将我们的记忆带回早期社会历史的某些关键事件，而纪念碑和它的特定地点孟买或多或少完全缺席。

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Decolonising the Gateway of India

This article interrogates how a colonial monument, the Gateway of India in Mumbai, former Bombay, continues to carry and be endowed with a title that is a misplaced embodiment of Indian social histories. Built in the 1920s, this monument, definitely a work of architectural grandeur, continues to carry its erroneous rendition and confines India’s vast social histories to the colonial moment, with an anglo-centric focus. As the monument symbolises the memory of the colonial regime, it also signifies its oppression as well as its exit from the subcontinent, rather than witnessing anyone coming to India, except King George in 1911, as the monument’s title seems to suggest. A mnemonic device of colonialism, this misleading label needs to be seriously revisited, for it not only romanticises the colonial past but also fails to lead our memories back to certain crucial episodes in earlier social histories, from which the monument and its specific place, Mumbai, are more or less fully absent.

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South Asia Research Multiple-

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期刊介绍： South Asia Research is an international, multidisciplinary forum which covers the history, politics, law, economics, sociology, visual culture, languages and literature of the countries in South Asia. It includes works of theory, review and synthesis as well as detailed empirical studies by both research students and established scholars from around the world.