Gender and Intersectionality on India and its Diaspora's (GRID) Heritage

珍视和保护我们多样化的遗产是我们现在和未来的一项重要努力。认识到遗产的某些方面比其他方面更受重视，以及如何缓解这种失衡，同样具有重要意义。根据乔治·奥威尔在他的著作《1984》中的名言改编，控制过去的人控制未来，控制现在的人控制过去。当今时代歧视和不平等的经验和做法对谁的以及哪种遗产将延续到未来几代人产生影响。我们的愿景是发展和巩固一个英国-印度网络，突出并深化一个在评估遗产时意识到社会和机构歧视的分析框架。我们的框架以印第安人和散居者(网格)遗产的性别和交叉性为基础，因此那些在性别、种姓、阶级和/或族裔的交叉线上受到歧视的人和做法以及他们的遗产工作在国家和跨国一级得到充分的赞赏、参与和支持。我们计划通过在新德里和伦敦组织两个研讨会、相关展览和音乐表演、一个在线展示案例研究和数字化档案的项目网站以及其他更长期的战略来巩固网格遗产网络。该网络将包括三个主要领域的学者、研究人员、策展人、遗产从业者、管理人员和其他专家：(I)手工艺：绘画、插图和三维物体(由印度首席调查员Parul Dave-Mukherji协调)；(Ii)线：刺绣和纺织品(由英国首席调查员Raminder Kaur协调)；(Iii)回声：音乐和表演(由英国联合调查员Navtej Purewal协调)。每个组成部分都将由网络参与者开发，并得到新德里和伦敦的免费公共活动的支持，包括当地的亚洲、遗产、文化遗产和公共活动艺术和青年团体将被邀请。我们鼓励网络参与者将性别和交叉性的视角应用于遗产问题和案例，提出以下问题：-我们如何根据具体情况对适用于印第安人和散居海外的遗产的性别和交叉性进行理解？从业者在身份和遗产方面感受到了哪些方面的歧视？在不断变化的背景下，这对他们自我认同的个人和社区有什么影响？--赋予遗产形式的价值在多大程度上被用来包括一些群体，而对其他形式的遗产的贬值被用来排除其他群体？“艺术”和“手艺”、“工匠”和“艺术家”等类别如何适用于利用个人遗产的作品？-我们如何理解不同种姓、宗教、种族和地区背景下的遗产物品和实践？这将如何影响人们对他们不同家庭的理解，无论他们是在印度还是在英国？-我们如何使用性别和交叉性镜头来增强个人和社区的能力，以巩固他们的遗产？-我们如何将可能与被边缘化的人相关的离网或隐藏的遗产放在一个现在和未来都能得到重视的平台上？这些网络活动将导致一个项目网站，其中包括数字化的案例研究、公共事件的视听录音、开放获取的工作论文、报告、网格遗产路线图(包括可发送给利益相关者的执行摘要)、本科生和研究生课程的教材。中期和最终网络报告，包括参与者和合作伙伴自己的网络的综合评价报告。这份最终报告稍后将为进一步的国际研究制定更坚定的重点、目的、目标和合作伙伴。

Valuing and conserving our diverse heritage is an important endeavour for our presents and our futures. Recognising how certain aspects of heritage are prized over others, and how such imbalances can be mitigated are equally significant. In an adaptation of George Orwell's famous lines from his book, 1984, those who control the past control the future, and those who control the present control the past. Experiences and practices of discrimination and inequity in the current era has repercussions for whose, and which kind of heritage continues for future generations.Our vision is to develop and consolidate a UK-India network that highlights and deepens a framework of analysis that is conscious of social and institutional discrimination when it comes to valuing heritage. Our framework is informed by gender and intersectionality on Indian and Diasporic (GRID) heritage so as those people and practices discriminated along the intersecting lines of gender, caste, class and/or ethnicity along with their heritage work are fully appreciated, engaged and supported at the national and transnational level. We plan to consolidate the GRID Heritage network through the organising of two workshops, linked exhibitions and musical performances in New Delhi and London, a project website with an online exhibition of case studies and digitised archive along with other more long-term strategies. The network will include academics, researchers, curators, heritage practitioners, managers and other specialists in three main areas: (i) Craft: paintings, illustrations and three dimensional objects (co-ordinated by Parul Dave-Mukherji, Principal Investigator, India),(ii) Threads: embroidery and textiles (co-ordinated by Raminder Kaur, Principal Investigator, UK), (iii) Echoes: music and performance (co-ordinated by Navtej Purewal, Co-Investigator, UK).Each of these components will be developed by network participants, and supported by free public events in New Delhi and London to which the general public including local Asian, heritage, arts and youth groups will be invited. We encourage network participants to apply a gender and intersectionality lens to heritage issues and cases by asking the following questions: - How do we develop a context-specific understanding of gender and intersectionality as they apply to Indian and Diasporic heritage? In what ways have practitioners felt discrimination with respect to their identity and heritage? What are the implications of this for the individual and the community/ies with which they self-identify in changing contexts? - To what extent is the value assigned to forms of heritage used to include some groups and the devaluation of other forms of heritage used to exclude others? How are categories such as 'art' and 'craft', 'artisan' and 'artist' applied for work that draws upon an individual's heritage?- How do we make sense of heritage objects and practice located across diverse caste-class, religio-ethnic and regional contexts? How does this influence an understanding of their various homes, whether they be in India or in UK?- How can we use gender and intersectionality lenses to empower individuals and communities to build upon their heritage?- How can we place what might be off-the-grid or hidden heritage associated with marginalised people on a platform where they can be valued now and in the future?The network activities will lead to a project website with digitised case studies, visual and audio-visual recordings of public events, open access working papers, reports, a GRID Heritage roadmap including an executive summary to send to stakeholders, teaching material for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, interim and final network reports including a comprehensive evaluation report for participants' and partners' own networks. This final report will later inform the development of a firmer focus, aims, objectives and partners for further international research.