Crossing the tracks: Railway workers and the terrain of popular politics in late colonial Lahore (1919 - 1947)

这个项目继续探索晚期殖民地拉合尔（约1919-1947年）的流行政治领域。到目前为止，战后各种形式的大众政治的直接融合，以Khilafat运动、不合作运动和1920年的铁路罢工的形式，已经被区分开来，以微妙的方式欣赏复杂、重叠和矛盾的运动，包括精英和平民演员。此外，大众政治动员的另一个顶点，即20世纪40年代早期和中期，在精英和平民政治日益“公有化”的环境中，显示了劳工战斗性上升的看似矛盾的图景，这也在第一个项目阶段进行了研究。如果延期获得批准，将用于在填补研究方面的三个剩余空白后完成计划的专著：(a)虽然迄今为止一直关注Moghalpura铁路车间和铁路工人定居点的政治运动，但需要系统地分析这些新创建的社会空间与“旧城”的相互关系，以便将车间置于拉合尔的城市历史中。(b)在这项研究中出现的使城市空间充满活力的大众政治潮流的密集图景，需要进一步分析工作场所，特别是讲习班中种族化的等级制度对Moghalpura平民政治表达的复杂影响来加以补充。(c)就民众动员而言，两个表面上最活跃的时刻，即1920年代初和1940-1947年期间，正在本项目目前第一阶段进行彻底探讨。然而，相对平静的20世纪30年代的地下发展需要更深入的调查，以了解在这两个时刻之间展开的铁路工人劳工运动的政治文化的根本转变。

This project continues to explore the sphere of popular politics of late colonial Lahore (ca. 1919-1947). So far, the immediate post-war confluence of diverse forms of popular politics, in the form of the Khilafat movement, Non-Cooperation movement and the railway strike of 1920, has been prised apart for a nuanced appreciation of what were complex, overlapping as well as contradictory movements involving elite as well as plebeian actors. Furthermore, another culmination point of popular political mobilization, the early and mid-1940s, that displayed the seemingly contradictory picture of a rise of labour militancy in an environment of an increasing "communalization" of elite as well as plebeian politics has also been researched in the first project phase. The extension, if granted, will be used to finalize the planned monograph after filling three remaining lacunae in terms of research: (a) While political movements in Moghalpura's railway workshops and railway workers' settlements have been focused upon so far, the interrelatedness of these newly created social spaces with the "old city" needs to be analyzed systematically in order to situate the workshops in the urban history of Lahore. (b) The dense picture of popular political currents animating the space of the city, as it emerges through this research, needs to be supplemented by further analysis of the workplace and particularly of the complex impact of racialized hierarchies in the workshops on the articulation of plebeian politics in Moghalpura. (c) The two most ostensibly dynamic conjunctures in terms of popular mobilizations, namely the early 1920s and the period from 1940-1947, are being thoroughly explored in the present first phase of the project. The subterranean developments of relatively quiescent 1930s however require a closer investigation in order to understand the fundamental shifts in the political culture of the railway workers' labour movement that unfolded between these two conjunctures.