Hindistan’daki İngiliz Kulüpleri ve Millî/Emperyalist Kimliğin Pekiştirilmesi: Tom Stoppard’ın Indian Ink Adlı Oyunu
Open Access
- 10 September 2021
- journal article
- Published by kulturarastirmalari in Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi
- No. 10,p. 1-21
- https://doi.org/10.46250/kulturder.931061
Abstract
Throughout the British Raj, British colonisers built many clubs in India. These clubs functioned as socialising areas for the British where they met, danced, listened to music, played polo/cricket, read newspapers and magazines, and held conversa-tions. They were also race-selective; they accepted particularly the British (and some of them accepted Europeans, as well) as members or guests, and excluded indigenous Indians. Moreover, they had been instruments for the British to enforce their national and imperial identities in India. In this sense, the British club in India was a microcosm of Britain, the representation of the British Empire’s ideologies and a symbol of racism. British colonisation in India, power relations and hegemonic struggles between the coloniser and the colonised in this colony had been significant issues that have attracted the attentions of many literary and historical figures, and have been topics for many literary works. Within the light of these points, and in relation to Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink, this article aims to discuss the function of the British club in India as an imperial institution that reflects the Eurocentric worldview, East-West dichotomy, and British national and imperial ideologies during the British Raj.Keywords
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