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- From: aa@iti.org (Aayush Asthana)
- Subject: Re: Songs of the Subcontinent?
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:42:40 GMT
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- Lynn.E.Noel@dartmouth.edu (Lynn E Noel) writes:
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- >% songs written in English in India during the British Raj
- >%Jwork songs of British workers in India, or of workers in colonial
- >activities
- >%Jsongs that mention India as a destination or an origin, or contain
- >Indian placenames
- >%Jmodern songs that deal with colonial society in British India
- >%Jsongs in the Indian tradition(s) that touch on the colonial period
-
- >If there are empty categories, why? RSVP to end our bafflement! Thanks.
- >Please e-mail me directly as I don't check some of these lists
- >regularly.
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- For the benefit of the net, I will respond here and then reply by
- e-mail directly as you have asked.
-
- Unlike some of the colonial possessions in the west that Great
- Britain had (US is one), India was a prize that was gotten through
- intense competition with the French, the Dutch, and the Spaniards...
- the means were not altogether above board either. If you do not
- find songs commerrating such memories as evocatively as you ask for,
- look for the opposite namely songs of freedom and self-rule -- they
- reflect the kind of western man that Indians came to know: a
- proponent of apartheid (yes, the analogy holds), a cultivator of
- self-aggrandizing imperialism, and a suppressor of Indian thought
- and culture. Also please remember that if you can't find songs
- (which are mostly evocative of happy memories, mostly), then at the
- very least you'll find tons of dark prose.
-
- >Lynn E. Noel
- >Research Fellow, Atlantic Centre for the Environment
- >lynn.e.noel@dartmouth.edu
-
- >"The care of rivers is not a question of rivers, but of the human
- >heart." Tanaka Shozo
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