The Loud Silence Harboured in the Roads on the East India Estate

THE LOUD SILENCE HARBOURED IN THE ROADS ON THE EAST INDIA ESTATE
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The City and State where it is locatedThe Date The Loud Silence Harboured in the Roads on the East India Estate Power is perhaps the most desired, cherished, and pursued desire by human beings across history. Power does not only give an individual or a group of people the power to control others, but it also gives them the ability to write history. Quoting Frank Harte, “those in power write history, while those who suffer write songs.” Essentially, much of the modern world consumers’ history was written by those who held power in the past. History is written through monuments and statues (Smith, 1999). The two represent something we have chosen to take seriously as a people. They memorialize in a permanent form and say to the future, “this is what I want you to remember about my generation” (Gladwell (Host), 2019). However, since those in power are more likely to write history through monuments and statues, they describe history from their perspective and often, intentionally or unintentionally, tend to erase the history of the oppressed. Therefore, there is a need to understand how power can be traced through the way history is narrated and curated until it becomes accepted and known. At the same time, explore the silence articulated through this curation. If the size of a country determined how powerful the country is, then Britain would be ranked 80^th in the world, surpassed even by some developing nations. However, the country ranks among the top five most powerful countries globally and influences socioeconomic, political, and cultural aspects in many countries, especially the Commonwealth nations. The Commonwealth is an umbrella consisting of member states that were once colonies of Britain. During the colonial period, starting with the discovery of the New World ending at the independence of colonies, the British empire was massive and once hailed as where the sun did not set. One way through which modern Britain remembers this history that brought the country wealth from overseas is through statues and naming of essential sites. An example is The Roads on the East India Estate. The Roads on the East India Estate Croydon is a large town in the South of London named after the London Borough of Croydon. While the area is primarily urban, it also consists of extensive suburban and rural uplands towards the south. Here, bound between Ashburton, Canning, Addiscombe, and Lower Addiscombe Roads, lies the East India Estate Conservation (88 acres) (Croydon_Council, 2014). Between 1809 and 1858, the area hosted the East India Company’s engineering college, a large mansion where Outram Road passes today. When the college closed, the land was sold in 1861, after which most of the structures were demolished. The land was subsequently divided into five residential streets built in the 1870s. In 2008, the Croydon Council established the East India Estate Conservation Area. The purpose was to commemorate the Victorian architecture within the area, formerly the East India Company property. The estate is ...