Contesting power, contesting memories

December 10, 2012 13:03

Examining continuity and change in the commemorative history of an imperial war memorial, this paper shows that the contestations for hegemony in the present often take the form of contestations about memories.

The Koregaon Bheema obelisk near Pune, which was built to reconfirm the belief of the British in their own power, today serves much the same function but for a different group of people former untouchable Mahars who had no choice but to collaborate with the colonisers against a tyrannical native regime. Read more

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