Crossing the tracks: Railway workers and the terrain of popular politics in late colonial Lahore (1919 - 1947)

该项目继续探索晚期殖民时期拉合尔(约1919-1947)的民众政治领域。到目前为止，战后各种形式的民众政治的直接汇合，如基拉法特运动、不合作运动和1920年的铁路罢工，已经被分开，以便对涉及精英和平民行为者的复杂、重叠和相互矛盾的运动有细微的了解。此外，在第一个项目阶段还研究了民众政治动员的另一个高潮，即1940年代初和中期，在精英阶层日益“社区化”和平民政治日益“社区化”的环境中，劳工好战情绪抬头这一看似矛盾的图景。如果延期获得批准，将用于在填补在研究方面的三个剩余空白后最后完成计划的专著：(A)尽管迄今为止重点关注的是莫哈尔普拉铁路车间和铁路工人住区的政治运动，但需要系统地分析这些新创建的社会空间与“老城”的相互关系，以便将这些讲习班置于拉合尔的城市历史中。(B)通过这项研究显示，民众政治潮流活跃着城市空间，这一密集图景需要进一步分析工作场所，特别是车间种族主义等级制度对摩加尔普拉平民政治表达的复杂影响。(C)在本项目的第一阶段中，正在彻底探讨在大众动员方面最具活力的两个时期，即1920年代初期和1940-1947年期间。然而，上世纪30年代相对平静的地下发展需要更仔细的调查，才能理解在这两个时期之间展开的铁路工人工人运动政治文化的根本转变。

This project continues to explore the sphere of popular politics of late colonial Lahore (ca. 1919-1947). So far, the immediate post-war confluence of diverse forms of popular politics, in the form of the Khilafat movement, Non-Cooperation movement and the railway strike of 1920, has been prised apart for a nuanced appreciation of what were complex, overlapping as well as contradictory movements involving elite as well as plebeian actors. Furthermore, another culmination point of popular political mobilization, the early and mid-1940s, that displayed the seemingly contradictory picture of a rise of labour militancy in an environment of an increasing "communalization" of elite as well as plebeian politics has also been researched in the first project phase. The extension, if granted, will be used to finalize the planned monograph after filling three remaining lacunae in terms of research: (a) While political movements in Moghalpura's railway workshops and railway workers' settlements have been focused upon so far, the interrelatedness of these newly created social spaces with the "old city" needs to be analyzed systematically in order to situate the workshops in the urban history of Lahore. (b) The dense picture of popular political currents animating the space of the city, as it emerges through this research, needs to be supplemented by further analysis of the workplace and particularly of the complex impact of racialized hierarchies in the workshops on the articulation of plebeian politics in Moghalpura. (c) The two most ostensibly dynamic conjunctures in terms of popular mobilizations, namely the early 1920s and the period from 1940-1947, are being thoroughly explored in the present first phase of the project. The subterranean developments of relatively quiescent 1930s however require a closer investigation in order to understand the fundamental shifts in the political culture of the railway workers' labour movement that unfolded between these two conjunctures.