India Arrived: Seeing and Being in Britain, 1870-1914 - an examination of the definitive phases and key moments of early Indian migration to Britain

印度到达：在英国的观察和存在，1870-1914 年——考察早期印度移民到英国的决定性阶段和关键时刻

• 批准号: AH/I001123/1
• 负责人: Elleke Boehmer
• 金额: $ 4.53万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI001123%2F1
• 关键词: India; Arrived; Seeing; Being; Britain

The book project 'India Arrived: Seeing and Being in Britain, 1870-1914', will trace a themed and structured cultural and literary history of the first distinct phase of significant Indian migration to Britain, 1870-1914. To date, this early phase of South Asian diaspora has not been shaped into a phased monograph-length narrative, such as that proposed. The period is bracketed by the opening of the Suez Canal, and the relaxing of certain caste restrictions on Indians' travel at its one end, and by the outbreak of the First World War at its other, when, following the massive but controversial involvement of 1.5 million Indians in the War effort, Indian-British relations markedly changed in the direction of greater divisiveness and nationalist politicization. Building on and expanding the extensive, pathbreaking archival research carried out as part of the 2007-10 AHRC-funded 'Making Britain' project, not yet consolidated in monograph form, the book's narrative of the formation of Britain's first diasporic communities, and of the unfolding of the first India-British literary and cross-cultural collaborations, will be organized under five keynote headings capturing definitive aspects of the five decades in question, and rounding off with a coda and conclusion: Gateway Suez; London Under Indian Eyes; Oriental Fin de Siecle; Edwardian Extremists; 1912; Coda: The Indian Salient.The monograph will contend that the early 1870-1914 period was distinguished in particular by friendships and acts of hospitality operating in both directions between the cultures, on British soil, expressed as one-on-one exchanges between Indian and British individuals (Dadabhai Naoroji and his British hosts, Manmohan Ghose and Laurence Binyon, Sarojini Naidu and 1890s poets around Yeats, Margaret Noble and Ananda Coomaraswamy, Rothenstein and Tagore), and within groups such as the National Indian Association, the Theosophical Society, and the India Society which comprised both Indian and British members. It was also characterized by a frank and unabashed approach among the Indian travel writers, intellectuals, essayists and poets towards British culture and society, facilitated through new networks of trade and commerce, and religious and cultural interchange between India and Britain. From the British point of view, exchanges were animated also by a palpable, to date critically neglected British interest in India as providing new modes of knowledge, concepts of 'truth' and conventions of figuration at a time of intensive late Victorian and modernist self-questioning (so, for example, Ghose and Naidu found in the mannered, highly patterned poetics of decadence a way of insinuating their own distinctive, sinuous 'Oriental line', and William Rothenstein's explorations in Indian culture coincided with Roger Fry's First and Second Post-Impressionist Exhibitions, 1910, 1912). The study will ask whether the cosmopolitan vision of these writers and intellectuals anticipated the development of migrant South Asian and multicultural identities in Britain later in the twentieth century; and, finally, whether the fact that Indian troops held the Ypres salient on behalf of the Allies in 1914-15 can be cast as one of the most decisive and unequivocal ways in which Indians supported and interacted with Britain at this time. Gathering together the significant work in terms of new research and intensive academic and public outreach carried out by 'Making Britain' (including workshops, a massive data base, and a source book covering the entire 1870-1950 span), 'India Arrived, 1870-1914' will consolidate these findings into a structured narrative tracing the early coming-into-being of one of contemporary Britain's most prominent and influential migrant communities. Rather than surveying the wide field, the book will offer an informed and focused critical analysis of British-Indian interaction and its varied and distinctive literary-cultural impacts in a 45-year period.

图书项目“印度到达：看到和存在于英国，1870- 1914”，将追溯1870-1914年印度移民到英国的第一个明显阶段的主题和结构化的文化和文学史。迄今为止，南亚散居的这一早期阶段还没有形成一个分阶段的专著长度的叙述，如建议。这一时期包括苏伊士运河的开通，以及运河一端对印度人旅行的某些种姓限制的放松，以及第一次世界大战的爆发，当时，随着150万印度人大规模但有争议地参与战争，印英关系明显朝着更大的分裂和民族主义政治化的方向变化。建立和扩大广泛的，开创性的档案研究进行了作为2007-10 AHRC资助的“使英国”项目的一部分，尚未以专著的形式巩固，这本书的叙述英国的第一个散居社区的形成，以及第一个印度-英国文学和跨文化合作的展开，将在五个主题标题下组织，这些标题捕捉了所讨论的五十年的确定方面，并以结尾和结论结束：苏伊士门户;印度人眼中的伦敦;东方世纪末;爱德华七世极端主义者; 1912年;结尾：这本专著将争辩说，1870年至1914年早期，在英国的土地上，两种文化之间的友谊和好客行为尤其突出，表现为印度和英国个人之间的一对一交流（达达拜·瑙罗吉和他的英国东道主曼莫汉·高斯和劳伦斯·宾扬，萨罗吉尼·奈杜和19世纪90年代叶芝周围的诗人，玛格丽特·诺布尔和阿南达·库马拉斯瓦米，罗滕斯坦和泰戈尔），以及全国印第安人协会等团体内部，神学协会和印度协会，其中包括印度和英国的成员。它的另一个特点是，印度旅行作家、知识分子、散文家和诗人对英国文化和社会采取了坦率和毫不掩饰的态度，这得益于印度和英国之间新的贸易和商业网络以及宗教和文化交流。从英国人的角度来看，交流也是由一个明显的，迄今为止被严重忽视的英国在印度的利益，提供新的知识模式，“真理”的概念和公约的形象在一个密集的维多利亚晚期和现代主义的自我质疑的时候，（因此，例如，Ghose和Naidu在矫揉造作、高度模式化的颓废诗学中发现了一种暗示他们自己独特的方式，蜿蜒的“东方线”，威廉·罗滕斯坦在印度文化的探索与罗杰·弗莱的第一次和第二次后印象派展览，1910年，1912年）。这项研究将询问这些作家和知识分子的世界主义视野是否预见到了世纪晚些时候南亚移民和多元文化身份在英国的发展;最后，无论是印度军队在1914年代表盟军占据伊普尔突出部的事实，15可以被铸造为印度人在这个时候支持英国和与英国互动的最决定性和最明确的方式之一。汇集了“打造英国”在新研究和密集的学术和公共宣传方面的重要工作（包括研讨会，一个庞大的数据库，和一本涵盖整个1870-1950跨度的源书），'印度到达，1870年至1914年“将巩固这些发现到一个结构化的叙述跟踪早期进入-作为当代英国最突出和最有影响力的移民社区之一。而不是调查广泛的领域，这本书将提供一个明智的和有重点的批判性分析英国-印度的互动及其在45年的时间里不同的和独特的文学文化影响。

项目成果

India in Britain

印度在英国

• DOI: 10.1057/9780230392724_2
• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Boehmer E

Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire

1870-1915 年印度人的到来：大英帝国的网络

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Elleke Boehmer

• 'East to West'.

▪ “从东到西”。

• 发表时间: 2012
• 期刊: Wasafiri
• 影响因子: 0.3
• 作者: Elleke Boehmer

South Asians and the shaping of Britain, 1870-1950: A Sourcebook

南亚人与英国的塑造，1870-1950：一本资料书

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Elleke Boehmer;Susheila Nasta
• 通讯作者: Susheila Nasta