{"title":"Decolonising from London. An Indian psychogeography around Victorian railway spaces (1870-1914)","authors":"A. Chatterjee","doi":"10.4000/diasporas.5905","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A prisoner paints a landscape on the wall of his cell showing a miniature train en-tering a tunnel. When his jailers come to get him, he asks them “politely to wait a moment, to allow me to verify something in the little train in my picture… I made myself very tiny, entered into my picture and climbed into the little train, which started moving, then disappeared into the darkness of the tunnel. For a few seconds longer, a bit of flaky smoke could be seen coming out of the round hole. Then this smoke blew away, and with it the picture, and with the picture, my person…” 1","PeriodicalId":40653,"journal":{"name":"Diasporas-Histoire et Societes","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Diasporas-Histoire et Societes","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4000/diasporas.5905","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A prisoner paints a landscape on the wall of his cell showing a miniature train en-tering a tunnel. When his jailers come to get him, he asks them “politely to wait a moment, to allow me to verify something in the little train in my picture… I made myself very tiny, entered into my picture and climbed into the little train, which started moving, then disappeared into the darkness of the tunnel. For a few seconds longer, a bit of flaky smoke could be seen coming out of the round hole. Then this smoke blew away, and with it the picture, and with the picture, my person…” 1
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