‘This Foul Substance Is Called History’: Anglo-Indian Memory-narratives and (Mis)remembrances in Sealy’s The Trotter-nama

Abstract

This article demonstrates how, through various acts of remembrance and recovery, The Trotter-nama makes it possible to challenge as well as subvert dominant historiographical constructions about the Anglo-Indian past and their lived experiences. Thus it argues that the interconnectedness of memory, history and fiction could initiate newer possibilities towards reclaiming identities that are historiographically silenced, forgotten or elided.