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- Title
Pondichéry: Archive of 'French' India.
- Authors
Marsh, Kate
- Abstract
This article examines how the materiality of the town of Pondichéry (the buildings, monuments, streets), the historic cheflieu of l'Inde française, and images of it (both textual and photographic, produced between c.1890 and the present day), can be read as an archive. Rather than viewing the town simply as a depository of traces of the past, it explores how the cityscape offers an alternative temporality to the linear narrative of French colonial rule in India, which began in 1674 and persisted until 1954. Moving from how, under the French colonial projects of the nineteenth century, Pondichéry functioned as a 'lieu de mémoire' of what French rule in India might have been, to considering the role played by such French imperial nostalgia in the Tamildominated town of today, it interrogates how these elements might combine to facilitate an imagining of a postcolonial future.
- Subjects
PONDICHERRY (India); FRENCH colonial architecture; PHOTOGRAPHY
- Publication
Francosphères, 2014, Vol 3, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
2046-3820
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/franc.2014.2