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SUMMARY:“‘We are bored of eating bread and coffee’: Unintended travel narratives
of Indian soldiers in WWI” with Alaka Chudal
DESCRIPTION:\nSoldiers from South Asia —India (before Partition) and Nep
al— fighting in the First World War for the British travelled to the bat
tlefields of Europe during 1914 and 1915. A large number of them were ca
ptured and imprisoned in Germany in early 1915. In the same year\, the R
oyal Prussian Phonetic Commission in Berlin was established to compile a
sound archive of all the languages in the world\, for which it recorded
voices of those prisoners of war. This talk tunes into the selected voi
ces of those imprisoned South Asian soldiers to uncover the details of t
heir travel experience and their nostalgia and longing for home in the s
ongs\, poems and stories they sung\, recited\, and told for the phonetic
commission. These archival documents from the first half of 1915 theref
ore serve as early South Asian travel narratives.\n\nFor more details: h
ttps://events.la.psu.edu/event/south-asian-speaker-series-alaka-chudal/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Soldiers from S
outh Asia —India (before Partition) and Nepal— fighting in the First Wor
ld War for the British travelled to the battlefields of Europe during 19
14 and 1915. A large number of them were captured and imprisoned in Germ
any in early 1915. In the same year, the Royal Prussian Phonetic Commiss
ion in Berlin was established to compile a sound archive of all the lang
uages in the world, for which it recorded voices of those prisoners of w
ar. This talk tunes into the selected voices of those imprisoned South A
sian soldiers to uncover the details of their travel experience and thei
r nostalgia and longing for home in the songs, poems and stories they su
ng, recited, and told for the phonetic commission. These archival docume
nts from the first half of 1915 therefore serve as early South Asian tra
vel narratives.
For more details: https://events.la.psu
.edu/event/south-asian-speaker-series-alaka-chudal/
LOCATION:101 Old Botany Building
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