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

到目前为止，关于印度现代历史的德国档案的丰富性和潜力还没有得到充分的认识。对于印度历史学家的国际社会来说，这些资源可以打开新的研究视角，而这些视角仍然被对英国殖民档案的过度执着所阻碍。同时，通过探索德国-印度纠葛的现代历史，可以产生创新的研究问题，以进行跨国历史比较和对“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的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，这两个传统仅在非常有限的程度上相互承认。通过以下举措，“德国档案馆中的现代印度”长期项目(“德国档案馆中的现代印度”，MIDA)旨在为这一重大努力创造必要条件。从丹麦-哈勒驻南印度使团成立(1706年)到德国政治分裂结束(1989/90年)，该协会将--系统地在一个单一的数据库目录中收集关于现代印度和德印纠葛历史的德国档案资料和关键字信息；-向国际学术界长期提供这一数据库以及进一步研究数据，作为一种“不断增长的”和开放的数字资源，用于查找具体的档案材料；-在对相关档案馆藏进行系统评价的基础上，提供一个数字档案馆，它将逐步扩大，以便全面概述相关馆藏的全部主题，并讨论利用这些馆藏所隐含的方法挑战；-展示德国档案资源在示范试点研究项目和相应系列出版物中用于与印度有关的研究的潜力，以鼓励(A)更深入地利用这些档案馆藏，特别是德国和印度历史学家；(B)形成必要的多语种和区域间资质档案；-有助于持续实现德国政府和印度历史研究理事会于2012年11月制定的目标，即加强德国-印度在人文科学领域的研究合作；-通过使长期项目的研究成果系统化，促进关于全球纠葛历史中殖民主义形式的辩论。

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.