Geschichte und Erinnerung: The Lost Narratives of the Indian Legion

1944年，著名的印度自由战士和政治领袖苏巴斯·钱德拉·博斯（Subhas Chandra Bose）招募了一支由印度战俘组成的军事部队，并将其分配给德国的武装党卫队，以促进印度反对英国统治的独立斗争。这个军事单位被命名为“印度军团”，或者在东方更常见的是“阿扎德后Fauj”。我建议的研究重点是文件（日记，信件，信件，图片等）。二战期间在欧洲作战的印度军团的印度士兵。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·阿斯曼和阿莱达·阿斯曼所主张的民族范式，而是可以而且应该通过性别、宗教和意识形态等一系列其他方式进行探索。我的研究将通过时间的概念来接近印第安军团的历史记录，这是文化或文学中记忆辩论的核心。

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.