Modern India in German Archives,1706-1989 (MIDA)

迄今为止，德国关于现代印度历史的档案的丰富性和潜力还没有得到充分的重视。对于印度历史学家的国际社会来说，这些资源可以开辟新的研究视角，这些视角一直受到过度固定英国殖民档案的阻碍。与此同时，创新的研究问题可以产生跨国历史比较的目的，并通过对德国-印度纠缠的现代历史的探索，为“全球化”进程的历史分析。此外，由此产生的研究视角的双重拓宽为印度和德国历史研究传统之间更深入的交流与合作创造了新的机会--到目前为止，这两种传统只在非常有限的程度上相互认识。通过以下举措，长期项目“德国档案馆中的现代印度”（“Das Moderne Indien in deutschen Archiven”，MIDA）旨在为这一重大努力创造必要的条件。MIDA将在一个单一的数据库中系统地收集关于现代印度的德国档案和德印关系史的关键词信息，从丹麦-哈雷使命在南印度的建立（1706年）到德国政治分裂的结束（1989/90年）;- 向国际学术界长期提供这一数据库以及进一步的研究数据，作为“不断增长的”开放数字资源，以查找具体的档案材料;- 根据对相关档案馆藏的系统评价，提供数字化档案反映图标，该图标将不断扩大，以全面介绍相关收藏的专题范围，并讨论在利用这些收藏方面存在的方法挑战;- 在示范性试点研究项目和相应的出版物系列中展示德国档案资源对印度相关研究的潜力，以鼓励（a）更积极地利用这些档案，特别是德国和印度的历史学家，以及（B）形成必要的多语言和跨区域的资格概况;- 促进可持续地实现发展小组和印度历史研究理事会制定的目标2012年11月，即加强德国和印度在人文科学方面的研究合作; -通过系统化长期项目的研究成果，促进关于全球纠缠历史中殖民形式的辩论。

The richness and the potential of the holdings of German archives on modern Indian history has been appreciated insufficiently so far. To the international community of historians of India, these resources can open up new research perspectives that have remained obstructed by an excessive fixation on British colonial archives. At the same time, innovative research questions can be generated for purposes of transnational historical comparison and for the historical analysis of "globalization" processes through an exploration of the modern history of German-Indian entanglements. Moreover, the resulting twofold widening of research perspectives creates new chances for a more intensive communication and cooperation between Indian and German traditions of historical inquiry – traditions that have taken cognizance of each other, so far, only to a very limited extent. Through the following initiatives the long-term project "Modern India in German Archives" ("Das Moderne Indien in deutschen Archiven", MIDA) aims to produce the necessary conditions for this substantial endeavour. MIDA will – systematically collect in a single database catalogue and keyword information on holdings of German archives on modern India and the history of German-Indian entanglements, from the establishment of the Danish-Halle Mission in South India (1706) up to the end of the political division of Germany (1989/90); – make available this database as well as further research data to the international academic community on a long-term basis as a "growing" and open digital resource for the purpose of locating specific archival material; – provide a digital Archival Reflexicon based on this systematic evaluation of relevant archival holdings, which will be expanded successively in order to present an overview of the full thematic range of relevant collections and discuss the methodological challenges implicit in their utilization; – demonstrate the potential of German archival resources for India-related studies in exemplary pilot research projects and a corresponding publication series in order to encourage (a) a more intense utilization of these archival holdings particularly by German and Indian historians and (b) the shaping of the necessary multilinguistic and inter-regional qualification profiles; – contribute to a sustained realization of the goal that was formulated by the DFG and the Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) in November 2012, namely the intensification of German-Indian research co-operation in the Human Sciences; – contribute to the debates on forms of coloniality in the history of global entanglements by way of systematizing the long-term project’s research outcomes.