{"id":24173,"date":"2012-07-05T22:25:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T22:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24173"},"modified":"2012-07-05T22:25:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T22:25:19","slug":"anglo-indian-nostalgia-longing-for-india-as-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24173","title":{"rendered":"Anglo-Indian Nostalgia: Longing for India as Homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espace.library.uq.edu.au\/view\/UQ:7724\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Anglo-Indian Nostalgia: Longing for India as Homeland<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slccs.uq.edu.au\/index.html?page=76423\" target=\"_blank\">Rhizomes Postgraduate Conference<\/a><br \/>\nRhizomes: Re-visioning Boundaries Conference<br \/>\nThe School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies<br \/>\nThe University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia<br \/>\n2006-02-24 through 2006-02-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:alzena_dcosta@hotmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alzena D\u2019Costa<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Curtin University of Technology<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper argues that the &#8216;nostalgia&#8217; that the Anglo-Indian community exhibits in the telling of its (hi)stories can be seen as functioning to (re)claim India as homeland. The Anglo-Indians are the Indian-European minority community of India whose origins and history is inextricably interwoven with the politics of colonial India. Within the framework of post-independence Indian thought, the Community has been alienated from embodying the national identity and is made to feel unhomely.<\/p>\n<p>In his book <em>Long-distance Nationalism<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialscience.uq.edu.au\/zlatko-skrbis\" target=\"_blank\">Zlatko Skrbi\u015d<\/a> defines nostalgia as &#8216;a painful condition related to the homeland (Gr. <em>nostos<\/em> means &#8216;to return home&#8217; and <em>algia<\/em>, &#8216;a painful condition&#8217; (41). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/cas\/faculty\/rubenst.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Roberta Rubenstein<\/a>, in her book <em>Home Matters<\/em>, also describes nostalgia as a temporal separation (4). The recent nostalgic writings produced by the Anglo-Indian community remember, idealise and pine for the colonial past &#8211; a time when the Anglo-Indian community felt a sense of belonging in India. Some historians claim that nostalgia is &#8216;perhaps the most dangerous &#8230; of all the ways of using history&#8217; because it glosses &#8216;over the past&#8217;s iniquities and indignities&#8217;. However, Rubenstein points out that nostalgia can also &#8216;fix&#8217; the past and recover it in &#8216;narrative terms&#8217; (6). With this insight, I will argue that via nostalgic writing the Anglo-Indian community can revisit, and hence reclaim, India as home.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/espace.library.uq.edu.au\/eserv\/UQ:7724\/adc_rhiz.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglo-Indian Nostalgia: Longing for India as Homeland Rhizomes Postgraduate Conference Rhizomes: Re-visioning Boundaries Conference The School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 2006-02-24 through 2006-02-25 Alzena D\u2019Costa Curtin University of Technology This paper argues that the &#8216;nostalgia&#8217; that the Anglo-Indian community exhibits in the telling of its (hi)stories can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1196,4405],"tags":[11190,8567,1351,11191],"class_list":["post-24173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-literary-criticism","category-oceania","tag-alzena-dcosta","tag-anglo-indians","tag-india","tag-rhizomes-re-visioning-boundaries-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}