Decolonising from London. An Indian psychogeography around Victorian railway spaces (1870-1914)

Chatterjee, Arup K. (2020) Decolonising from London. An Indian psychogeography around Victorian railway spaces (1870-1914). Diasporas, 36. pp. 149-171. ISSN 16375823

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Abstract

As the expansion of the London Underground coincided with that of the Indian Railways, an Indian psychogeography was gradually emerging in the geographies on the fringes of the Victorian imperial capital. In their memoirs, Pothum Ragaviah, Mukharji, Jang, Malabari, Pillai and Pandian, among other Indian travellers, took an interest in London's railway spaces to renew their colonial subjectivity. As London neighborhoods took on an Asian character, Indian memories inhabited London in a typographical imagination, or Typogravia. Architectural, economic, artistic and literary consciousnesses overlapped in this typographic space to highlight an Indian aesthetic independent of travel and self-reliance, shaped around London's railway spaces.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Arts and Humanities > Arts and Humanities (General)
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Law School
Depositing User: Amees Mohammad
Date Deposited: 23 Jun 2022 10:17
Last Modified: 23 Jun 2022 10:17
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4000/diasporas.5905
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/3493

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