Darjeeling occupies a special place in the South Asian imaginary with its Himalayan vistas, lush tea gardens and brisk mountain air. Thousands of tourists, domestic and international, annually flock to the hills to taste their world-renowned tea and soak up the colonial nostalgia. Darjeeling Reconsidered rethinks Darjeeling’s status in the postcolonial imagination. Mobilizing diverse disciplinary approaches from the social sciences and humanities, this definitive collection of essays sheds fresh light on the region’s past and offers critical insight into the issues facing its people today. While the historical analyses provide alternative readings of the systems of governance, labour and migration that shaped Darjeeling, the ethnographic chapters present accounts of dynamics that define life in twenty-first century Darjeeling, including the Gorkhaland Movement, Fair Trade tea, indigenous and subnationalist struggle, gendered inequality, ecological transformation and resource scarcity. The volume figures Darjeeling as a vital site for South Asian and postcolonial studies and calls for a timely re-examination of the legend and hard realities of this oft-romanticized region.
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SINGH ANITA INDER
OXFORD & IBH PUBLISHING COMPANY, INDIA
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CUMMING DAVID
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P. CHIDAMBARAM
RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT. LTD.
Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
AKSHAYA MUKUL
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS LIMITED
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MALLIKA AHLUWALIA
A Rural Manifesto Realizing Indias Future Through Her Villages
GANDHI FEROZE VARUN
RSS 360 Demystifying Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
RATAN SHARDA
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
The Akbarnama of Abul Fazl 3 Volume Set
H. BEVERIDGE
THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, CALCUTTA
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