Geschichte und Erinnerung: The Lost Narratives of the Indian Legion

1944年，印度著名的自由战士和政治领袖苏巴斯·钱德拉·博斯（Subhas Chandra Bose）组建了一支由印度战俘组成的军队，并将其分配给德国武装党卫军，以促进印度对抗英国统治的独立斗争。这支军队被命名为“印度军团”，或者在东方更常见的名字是“阿扎德Hind Fauj”。我提出的研究重点是第二次世界大战期间在欧洲作战的印度军团士兵的文件（日记、信件、通信、图片等）。我的目标是从记忆研究的理论角度来开展这个项目。记忆研究的最新进展表明，记忆不能再局限于皮埃尔·诺拉、简和阿莱达·阿斯曼所支持的国家范式，而是可以而且应该从一系列其他方面进行探索，例如，通过性别、宗教和意识形态。我的研究将通过时间的概念来接近印度军团的历史记录，这是文化或文学中关于记忆的辩论的核心。

In 1944, Subhas Chandra Bose, a prominent Indian freedom fighter and political leader, raiseda military unit consisting of Indian prisoners of war and assigned it to the Waffen-SS inGermany to facilitate India's independence struggle against the British Raj. This military unitwas named 'The Indian Legion', or more commonly in the East, the 'Azad Hind Fauj'.My proposed research focuses on the documents (diaries, letters, correspondences,pictures, etc.) of Indian soldiers from the Indian Legion who fought in Europe during WorldWar II. I aim to carry out this project from the theoretical perspective of memory studies.Recent developments in memory studies suggest that memory can no longer be confined to thenational paradigm espoused by Pierre Nora and Jan and Aleida Assmann, but instead can andshould be explored in a range of other ways, e.g. through gender, religion, and ideology. Myresearch will approach the historical accounts of the Indian Legion through the notions of timewhich are central to the debates on memory in culture or literature.