Soundscapes of Struggle Against the Empire

Join us for a guided walk Soundscapes of Struggle Against the Empire, led by Manisha Tamilmani & Tanya Maheshwari from the MAP Team. This digital exhibition reads the role of sound in India’s freedom struggle by tracing its presence and movement in photographs and documents from the Mahatma Gandhi Collection.

Though these materials are visual in form, the exhibition attempts to listen to the aural traces they suggest. What emerges is a nonlinear account that shifts between public assemblies, sound equipment, and a covert radio experiment that bears witness to how sound shaped political action and collective experience. Lastly, it seeks to ask “what do these soundscapes reveal and how might they attune us to listen differently?”