{"title":"Material forms of memorialisation in pre- and post-independent India","authors":"N. Khetrapal, Kritika Karmakar","doi":"10.1080/14608944.2022.2125942","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For those who study war memorialisation, there are concerns that perspectives from the West appear predominantly in the literature. Initially, memorials were constructed for glorifying the sacrifices of the war dead followed by architectural designs that emerged to counter the memories of the Holocaust. Interpretations from India offer a differential analysis. The styles of memorials from the pre-independent era served to impose colonial memories. This began to change after independence culminating into structures that reaffirmed respect for freedom and security. Critically, a comparative analysis highlights the intricate relations between memorial styles and social sentiments that are unique to societies.","PeriodicalId":45917,"journal":{"name":"NATIONAL IDENTITIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"NATIONAL IDENTITIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2022.2125942","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT For those who study war memorialisation, there are concerns that perspectives from the West appear predominantly in the literature. Initially, memorials were constructed for glorifying the sacrifices of the war dead followed by architectural designs that emerged to counter the memories of the Holocaust. Interpretations from India offer a differential analysis. The styles of memorials from the pre-independent era served to impose colonial memories. This began to change after independence culminating into structures that reaffirmed respect for freedom and security. Critically, a comparative analysis highlights the intricate relations between memorial styles and social sentiments that are unique to societies.
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National Identities explores the formation and expression of national identity from antiquity to the present day. It examines the role in forging identity of cultural (language, architecture, music, gender, religion, the media, sport, encounters with "the other" etc.) and political (state forms, wars, boundaries) factors, by examining how these have been shaped and changed over time. The historical significance of "nation"in political and cultural terms is considered in relationship to other important and in some cases countervailing forms of identity such as religion, region, tribe or class. The focus is on identity, rather than on contingent political forms that may express it. The journal is not prescriptive or proscriptive in its approach.
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