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

到目前为止，德国档案中有关印度现代史的丰富和潜力还没有得到充分的认识。对于国际社会的印度历史学家来说，这些资源可以开辟新的研究视角，而这些研究视角一直被过度关注英国殖民时期的档案所阻碍。同时，通过对德印纠葛现代史的探索，可以为跨国历史比较和“全球化”进程的历史分析提供创新的研究问题。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——迄今为止，这两个传统只是在非常有限的程度上相互认识。通过以下举措，“德国档案中的现代印度”长期项目（“德国档案中的现代印度”，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有关现代印度和德印纠缠历史的德国档案的目录和关键字信息，从1706年在南印度建立丹麦-哈勒使团（dani - halle Mission）到德国政治分裂结束（1989/90）；-长期向国际学术界提供该数据库以及进一步的研究数据，作为“增长”和开放的数字资源，用于查找特定档案材料；-在对相关档案馆藏进行系统评估的基础上，提供一份数字档案反射，并将陆续扩充，以概述相关馆藏的全部专题范围，并讨论其利用过程中隐含的方法挑战；-在示范试点研究项目和相应的系列出版物中展示德国档案资源对与印度有关的研究的潜力，以鼓励(a)特别是德国和印度历史学家更广泛地利用这些档案资源，以及(b)形成必要的多语言和跨区域资格概况；-促进持续实现德国联邦政府和印度历史研究委员会（ICHR）于2012年11月制定的目标，即加强德国和印度在人文科学领域的研究合作；-通过将长期项目的研究成果系统化，为全球纠葛历史中殖民形式的辩论做出贡献。

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.