Colonial Era Periodicals
Dominance and Hegemony
role of digital technologies
Periodicals
Sub-altern
Archives
examples of sub-altern in Colonial Press
http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2009/11/indian-nutch-dancing-girls-various.html
community of records
the records continuum
Calcutta Chronicle and General Advertiser (Calcutta, India), Thursday, October 2, 1788; Issue 141.
MANNERS AND AMUSEMENTS .
The Era (London, England), Sunday, October 14, 1838; Issue 3.
The indian nautch-girl. (1903, Nov 10). The Times of India (1861-Current), pp. 4. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/233906470?accountid=13314
Limitations of Study
French and Portuguese colonial  periodicals of India
Indirect quotes
Mediation by the writer
certain articles are screened
role of manuscripts
ephemeral nature
access to these periodicals
fragility of these periodicals
infrastructure problems
http://www.indiaportugueza.com/scans.php?periodical=opatriota&volume=6&page=1
Official Press of French India: A discussion
"Imagined Community"? Whose Imagined Community? (Partha Chaterjee)
Bulletin Des Actes Administratifs Des Établissements Français Dans L’Inde (1825-1866)
The other class of people that the French administrators regulated was that of the prostitutes. There wasn’t any regulation of the prostitution as a trade until September of 1857. The decree No. 85 was entitled; “Arrêté portant pénalité contre les filles publiques” was issued in Pondicherry on September 16, 1857.  According to this decree, all of the female that were over the age of 15 years and were engaged in prostitution were mandated to register with Police their address. No one was allowed to engage in prostitution below the age of 15. The prostitutes were not allowed to gather in groups near the public highways and provoke indecent behavior that would entice the customers. It is peculiar to see that the exception to this rule were the “bayadères” or the nautch girls. All of the prostitutes despite of who their by their ethnic origins were mandated to reside in the Black city (La ville Noire) away from the churches and convents. This decree also regulated their movement in the White city.  The prostitutes were allowed to leave their profession only if they could prove legitimate income, marriage or if these individuals have contracted syphilis and undergoing the treatment. The fines for the services of the prostitutes to the travellers residing in the White city were 4 to 8 rupees per instance with doubling of the fines in the case of repeat offense.
The decree does not distinguish between the prostitutes of various origins, but provides general outline for the perceived moral conduct in the city.
Natives as coolies
Equal rights to all castes
French, Gens àchapeau and the Natives
THE ROMAN ALPHABET
The Madras Times. The Times of India (1861-current) [New Delhi, India] 18 Sep 1861: 3.
THE TRAFFIC IN GIRLS: PLEA FOR ALTERING THE LAW
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES OF INDIAHAROLD H MANN. The Times of India (1861-current) [New Delhi, India] 30 May 1912: 7.
source: http://tasveergharindia.net/cmsdesk/viewgallery.aspx?id=82&EId=100&ImageId=2
Source: Archives: Recordkeeping in Society
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/CIS/4862/index.htm
Source: cf.hum.uva.nl/bai/home/eketelaar/Sharing.doc
Source: DSAL
source: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/women/nautchlater/nautchlater.html
Can we examine the body of periodical texts as an archive? If yes, then can sub-altern really speak? Can these archives serve as a mechanism for preservation of "collective memory" of sub-alterns?
How can we reconcile the narrative as the representation of the past? ( See: Wertsch, J. V. (March 01, 2011). Beyond the archival model of memory and the affordances and constraints of narratives. Culture and Psychology, 17, 1, 21-29.)
Guha, R. (1997). Dominance without hegemony: History and power in colonial India. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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