El Último Virrey de la India: Quién escribe la historia

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  • e. guillermo iglesias-díaz Universidad de las Illes Balears image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.202611623

Palabras clave:

diáspora, hibridismo, herstoria, conocimiento situado, narración cinematográfica auto-consciente

Resumen

Sobre una pantalla en negro, antes de que aparezca ninguna imagen y con apenas un leve murmullo de fondo, la película El Último Virrey de la India (2017) de Gurinder Chadha comienza con la afirmación atribuida a Churchill: “La historia la escriben los vencedores”. Con este comienzo, Chadha parece querer provocar la reacción del público y si atendemos a las críticas que recibió el film, podemos afirmar que todas las partes involucradas en los hechos históricos relatados se vieron interpeladas, y no siempre de manera positiva: la película recibió duras reseñas, especialmente por parte de las comunidades musulmanas e hindúes que consideraron que la única intención de la directora era la de blanquear la responsabilidad de Mountbatten en la Partición de India y las terribles consecuencias de esa decisión. Sin embargo, a lo largo de las siguientes páginas intentaré demostrar que, realmente, quien vence en la película es la familia de Gurinder Chadha y, por extensión, quienes sobrevivieron a la Partición y que la cineasta utiliza su relato como forma de homenajear a las víctimas de aquella nefasta decisión política. De hecho, Chadha incluye a lo largo del film recursos formales y narrativos que nos recuerdan que su narración y su conocimiento se encuentran ‘situados’ y que para nada pretende ofrecer una versión ‘objetiva’ de los hechos acaecidos en el subcontinente asiático en 1947. El objetivo de mi propuesta, así pues, es el análisis de esos recursos y de cómo la directora intenta en última instancia cuestionar la ‘historia fáctica’ o cualquier intento de ofrecer la versión definitiva de la Historia.

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24-06-2026

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iglesias-díaz, e. guillermo. (2026). El Último Virrey de la India: Quién escribe la historia. Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 73, 169-188. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.202611623

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