Cemeteries, Public Memory and Raj Nostalgia in Postcolonial Britain and India

摘要: This article examines how, and why, decaying colonial-era European graveyards in India became targeted for conservation starting the 1970s by British Association Cemeteries South Asia (BACSA). serve as a barometer signaling how both ex-colonizers ex-colonized have assessed colonial spaces, artifacts, empire more generally after decolonization. Alongside working to preserve record tombstone inscriptions Indian subcontinent, BACSA members—many of whom count "old hands"—also helped make Raj nostalgia recurring feature public culture late twentieth century.