In this paper I analyse how the demolition of the Babri mosque by \nHindu nationalists and the communal violence in its aftermath (1992-93) \nis remembered in a predominantly Muslim slum neighbourhood in Mumbai. By\n drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I consider how a traumatic event is \ngiven meaning through fragmented memories inscribed in urban space. My \naim here is to provide a nuanced analysis of the fragmented memories of \npost-Babri violence in Mumbai (then Bombay) through the recollections of\n the city\u2019s Muslim poor, who faced the main brunt of the violence within\n the spatial context of the Muslim neighbourhoods that provide for a \nsafe social backdrop for the expression of an otherwise suppressed \nmemory that was pushed by the official narratives of the past into \nmarginality. I suggest that the silencing of their voices by official \nversions of the past can lead to the creation of an alternative \nsociality that addresses community concerns to break the hold of the \npast and imagine the future of cohabitation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this paper I analyse how the demolition of the Babri mosque by Hindu nationalists and the communal violence in its aftermath (1992-93) is remembered in a predominantly Muslim slum neighbourhood in Mumbai. By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I consider how a traumatic event is given meaning through fragmented memories inscribed in urban space. My … „Qudsiya Contractor gives a working paper on ‚Melancholia of the past‘“ <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[490,491,492,493],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}