Transnational connections and anti-colonial radicalism in the Royal Indian Navy mutiny, 1946
Transnational connections and anti-colonial radicalism in the Royal Indian Navy mutiny, 1946
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1946 年印度皇家海军叛变中的跨国联系和反殖民激进主义
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10.1111/glob.12256
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2019
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在这篇文章中，我探讨了1946年印度皇家海军兵变的空间政治，并呼吁更多的海洋意义上的“政治”。RIN仅存在于1934年至1950年;独立后成为印度海军。它在1946年的兵变，这是由一系列的不满，从反殖民主义的民族主义，以更世俗的挑战，对食品标准，仍然是这一历史的主导事件。莉拉·甘地（Leela Gandhi）（2014）利用RIN兵变来挑战印度历史学中精英和下层之间的二元区分，将其描述为“反殖民的反公众”，或者动员了占主导地位的民族主义独立框架之外的话语的空间。她还认为兵变是一个潜在的无关紧要的伦理学的例子，在这种伦理学中，兵变可以被解读为民主政治发生的实验空间，而不是人们努力争取“成功”的结果。我认为，虽然甘地对这些事件的阅读有很多值得钦佩的地方，但她低估了RIN叛乱的海上性质。换句话说，她没有承认，前往不同的国际地点让水手们了解民主和其他思想，这反过来又影响了他们对印度和RIN未来的看法。因此，我认为有必要更深入地探讨反殖民主义，民主政治和海军/海上经验之间存在的重要联系。
In this article, I explore the spatial politics of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny of 1946 and call for a more maritime sense of ‘the political’. The RIN only existed from 1934 to 1950; it became the Indian Navy after independence. Its mutiny in 1946, which was caused by a number of grievances from anticolonial nationalism to more mundane challenges about the standard of food, continues to be the dominant event in this history. Leela Gandhi (2014) used the RIN mutiny to challenge the binary distinction between elite and subaltern in much Indian historiography by depicting it as an ‘anti‐colonial counterpublic’, or space in which discourses other than the dominant nationalist framings of independence were mobilized. She also regards the mutiny as a potential example of inconsequential ethics in which, instead of worrying about its causes, the mutiny can be read as an experimental space in which democratic politics occurred, rather than one in which people were striving for a ‘successful’ outcome. I argue that, while there is much to be admired in Gandhi's reading of these events, she discounts the maritime nature of the RIN mutiny. In other words, she fails to acknowledge that travelling to different international locations allowed the sailors to learn about democracy and other ideas, which in turn influenced their beliefs about what the future of India, and the RIN, should look like. As a result, I argue for the need to explore in greater depth the important connections that exist between anti‐colonialism, democratic politics and the naval/maritime experience.