Deshpande Ashwini Uday Hemangi

HT4004

Changing Identities

The three modules explore three key aspects of Bengal Partition: 1. History of Calcutta during the 19th century, 2. A building typology typical to bourgeois English lifestyle of the city during 1930s and 3. Bengal partition by analysing Radcliffe Line. By taking identity as the central historiographical position, the palimpsest maps explore the life around jute industry. The second module explores the movies, impressionist paintings and archival readings as tools to analyse typical English house of a jute merchant in the city while the third module dwells on the details of Radcliffe line to create curatorial content beyond state narratives.

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Module 1: Introduction to the Palimpsest Mapping

Module 1: Map of Calcutta representing changing river basin and river edge growth

Module 1 : Map of Calcutta representing sites of events: Protests, Strikes and Arm Heists

Module 1: Map of Calcutta representing sites of identity, memory, erasure, conflicts and oppression

Module 2: The Bourgeois House

Module 2

Module 3: Shadow Lines

Module 3: The Surgical Cut

Module 3: Borderland Stories

Module 3: Perceiving the Border