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2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Mural Art of British India and Ceylon

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 20K00200
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 01060:History of arts-related
Research InstitutionKindai University

Principal Investigator

Toyoyama Aki  近畿大学, 国際学部, 准教授 (40511671)

Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Keywordsインド / セイロン / 商家建築 / 壁画 / ナショナリズム / 日本製タイル
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project conducted a comparative study on mural paintings on both religious and domestic buildings in colonial India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), focusing on their subject matter and stylistic characteristics that implied religious nationalism in the respective regions - Hinduism in India and Theravada Buddhism in Ceylon. Particularly in the project, build heritage that were patronised by mercantile comminities who rose their social status with great success in the colonial economic system was extensively researched to reveal inteconnections of visual reperesentations, politics, and socio economy in colonial South Asia. As a result, this four-year project revealed that religious nationalism and visual culture both in India and Ceylon were strengthened through mercantile patronisation for art and politics that was reflected in murals.

Free Research Field

インド美術史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の成果は、南アジアの二地域(インド、スリランカ)を比較対象として、植民地経験が国民文化としての視覚表象をどのように形成し、それぞれの地域の「国民」範疇における複数の民族の交流と対立が、芸術にどのように投影されているかを実証的に明らかにしたことにある。いわゆる純粋芸術よりも社会景観の形成と密接に関わる商家建築の装飾壁画に焦点を当てて実地調査と文献調査を組み合わせることにより、従来の美術史研究では議論が不足していた、美術、政治、社会経済の相互関係の具体的理解につながり、また現在の国民国家における文化や伝統の起源の批判的理解につながった点において、本研究の社会的意義は大きいものと考える。

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Published: 2025-01-30  

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