Conclusions

Abstract

This book has evolved out of my enthusiasm for visiting Forts. However, I want to start this final chapter by sharing some of the reservations I have towards assigning a ‘happy ending’ to this entire itinerary, to these stories, to my gaze on ruins. My hesitation originates from establishing throughout the book that the power relations under which ruins and imperial legacies and a number of contact zones operate, have much in common with those that existed in the ‘colonial past’. Possibilities of opening up multi-voiced spaces and places where competing narratives coexist seem faint.