2015 (5) - South Asia and the World Wars in the Twentieth Century
During the two World Wars ‘aliens’ of all skin and eye colours, linguistic groups, cultures and faiths were brought to Europe in the form of colonial soldiers and Black Americans who fought for the Allies. Among them were Africans, Egyptians, Turks, Palestinians, Arabs, Indians (from British India), and so on. To remember these ‘strange foreigners’, this year’s FOKUS of the South-Asia Chronicle deals with a specific category of these temporary soldier-migrants who were brought to Germany in thousands as captive British-Indian soldiers and camp followers in World War I and World War II. Some of them died in various prisoners of war (POW) camps, sick bays, hospitals, and sanatoria, others survived their ordeals in captivity in various internment camps or Stalags (Stamm-lager, i.e. large POW camps).
Each essay of FOKUS showcases a different range of archival deposits in various parts of Germany – in isolated cases also from Britain, India and Geneva – which has been used to recreate the lived experiences of ‘alien coloured captives’. All of them in their own ways allude to the dilemmas, anxieties, and confusions that the German officialdom faced during the two World Wars. Within this short span of time, the authors have outlined phases into which the treatment of jangi qaidis could be divided notwithstanding continued cultural confusions and linguistic misunderstandings.
The FORUM of the volume includes seven articles on diverse topics from history, sociology, and anthropology. The final rubric REVIEW ESSAYS contains contributions that present state-of-the-art and historiographical overviews on various topics.
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2016-01-26ZeitschriftenartikelInhaltsverzeichnis/Content
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2016-01-26ZeitschriftenartikelImpressum/Imprint
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelAusbau des asienwissenschaftlichen Informationsangebots – CrossAsia – Fachinformationsdienst Asien geht an den Start
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelReport on the Inaugural Workshop of the DFG-funded project 'Modern India in German Archives, 1706-1989'/'Das Moderne Indien in deutschen Archiven' 1706-1989’ (MIDA)
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelSlaving, Slavery and Abolition: A View from the Indian Ocean Notes on Some Recent Publications
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelStudying Labour Culture in India The Missing 'Everyday' of Industrial Work
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelThe Role of Monetary Networks in the Trade between India and the Roman Empire
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelReligion-Based Personal Lawsin India from a Women’s Rights Perspective Context and some Recent Publications
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelA Wooden Jain House Temple from theBerlin Museum of Asian Art and its Tradition
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelUrban Margins, a Refuge for Muharram Processionsin Bombay Towards an Idea of Cultural Resilience
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelCity Calls to City Walls Pheriwallah/wallihs and the (Un)contestedSpaces of Kolkata
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelTools of Satire: Marathi Theatrein Colonial India The Case of Sangeet Sthanik-Swarajya athva Municipality
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelCommunism and Communalism in the 1920s Notes on a Neglected Nexus
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelIndiens koloniales Erbe der Flussverschmutzung
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelAltern in Indien Die Familie und der Staat als Überlebenshilfe
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelAsien und der Zweite Weltkrieg Gedanken zur "anderen" Seite eines globalen Krieges
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelBetween Erasure and Remembrance Shreds from the Lives of South Asian Prisoners of War in Stammlagers, Arbeitskommandos, Lazaretts and Graves During World War II (1939-45)
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelThe Last Chapter of the Indian Legion
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelDie Indische Legion im Zweiten Weltkrieg Interkulturelle Menschenführungzwischen Atlantikwall und Wehrmachtsgefängnis
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2016-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelIndian Seamen in World War I Prison Camps in Germany