{"id":139505,"date":"2025-03-17T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anthropology\/erasure-i-and-erasure-vi-sapiens\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:43:09","slug":"erasure-i-and-erasure-vi-sapiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=139505","title":{"rendered":"Erasure I and Erasure VI \u2013 SAPIENS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u273d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading__1\">Song of the First Spring<\/h2>\n<p>My two erasure poems below are the first and sixth selections from <em>Song of the First Spring<\/em>, a series of six poems born out of iterative blackouts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/catalogue.nla.gov.au\/catalog\/4984427\"><em>Treaty of Amritsar<\/em><\/a>. Through this agreement, signed on March 16, 1846, the British East India Company \u201csold\u201d Kashmir to Gulab Singh, a despotic Dogra ruler, for 7.5 million (Nanakshahi) rupees.<\/p>\n<p>Article 10 of the treaty\u2014a starting point for this series\u2014required that the Dogra ruler, in recognition of British supremacy, \u201cpresent annually to the British Government one horse, twelve shawl goats of an approved breed (six male and six female), and three pairs of Cashmere shawls.\u201d In 1884, instead of 12 goats, <a href=\"https:\/\/pahar.in\/pahar\/Books%20and%20Articles\/Indian%20Subcontinent\/1892%20Treaties%20Engagements%20and%20Sanads%20Vol%209%20by%20Aitchison.pdf\">it was agreed<\/a> that the ruler would present 10 pounds of natural pashm, 4 pounds of black wool, 4 pounds of gray wool, 4 pounds of white wool, and 1 pound of \u201ceach of the three best qualities of white yarn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This series came to life when Jagdeep Raina, an artist born in Ontario, Canada, with roots in Kashmir, invited me to respond to his exhibition <em>Destroyer <\/em>at the Art Gallery of Burlington in 2024. The erasures are conceived as sites of refusal and of imagining liberatory futures.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth erasure overlays a photo of a 19th-century embroidered \u201cmap-shawl\u201d of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir and Jammu. <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.vam.ac.uk\/item\/O70078\/shawl-unknown\/\">This map-shawl<\/a>, itself inscribed by acts of erasure and extraction, is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum\u2019s South &amp; South East Asia Collection, where it is attributed to an \u201cunknown\u201d artist\/maker. The notation erases the decades of labor that went into its making. Moreover, the contexts of British colonialism, including its extractive relation to \u201cCashmere\u201d shawls and \u201cshawl goats,\u201d and the ongoing colonialism, militarism, and extraction in Kashmir, remain absent.<\/p>\n<p>\u273d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u273d Song of the First Spring My two erasure poems below are the first and sixth selections from Song of the First Spring, a series of six poems born out of iterative blackouts of the Treaty of Amritsar. 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