Missing Voices: South Asian Perspectives on the Gwillim Archives | Digital Museums Canada
A man and woman sit in a palanquin draped in red cloth with plumes of red feathers and white tassels along the top with one larger tassel in the centre, and a decorative animal head at the end of the front carrying pole; carried by 4 men in loincloths and blue head coverings; a tree to the left, behind a man entering a straw hut.

Missing Voices: South Asian Perspectives on the Gwillim Archives

McGill Library 2023

What value do the Gwillim Archives hold for South Asian scholars? How do young people of South Asian heritage today experience colonial archives, and how do they create their own archives? Missing Voices builds on letters and paintings created by two English women who lived in South India two centuries ago, adding new perspectives from scholars, curators and young women that confront the legacy of colonialism and explore ideas of history, identity, memory and heritage.

Credits

Research

Victoria Dickenson
Vinita Damodaran
Toolika Gupta
Minakshi Menon
Marika Sardar

Text

English writer

Victoria Dickenson
Vinita Damodaran
Toolika Gupta
Minakshi Menon
Marika Sardar
Alisha Sawhney
Rekha Vijayashankar
Deborah Thiagarajan
Lauren Williams

French writer

Emilienne Greenfield

English editor

Victoria Dickenson

French editor

Victoria Dickenson
Emilienne Greenfield

Comparative editor

Victoria Dickenson

Translation

French translator

Traductions InteRmed Inc.

Other translation

(Tamil) Rossion Inc.

Production

Developer - website

Digital Initiatives
McGill Library

Designer - website

Vincent Charlebois
Chris Wiggs

Audio

editaudio

Photography

Greg Houston
P. Huggins

Full credits