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Author : Amiya K. Samanta
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788176481663
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Gorkhaland Movement written by Amiya K. Samanta and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gorkhaland Movement written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Romit Bagchi
Publisher : Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789353289638
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Gorkhaland written by Romit Bagchi and published by Sage Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorkhaland is an attempt by a journalist to unravel the various layers of the ongoing crisis in the Darjeeling hills, where the Nepali-speaking community is locked in a political struggle with the state of Bengal, of which it is a part. The author endeavours to delve into the deeper recesses of the psyche of the Gorkha community settled in these restive hills and attempts to put the prevailing stereotypes under a subjective scanner. The author approaches the century-old tangle from four perspectives: the history of the region, the problem of assimilation of the various ethnic groups, the course of the movement, from Dambar Singh Gurung to Bimal Gurung, and the hurdles in the way of the fulfillment of the statehood dream. The problem appears insoluble given the odds set against the formation of a separate state, and the people are poignantly aware of the impossibility of realizing this collective reverie. Yet they cannot give in. The writer attempts to give expression to this poignancy at the collective level-the frustration which gets accentuated into a fratricidal mayhem with or without provocations.
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Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Gorkhaland Agitation written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the agitation for a separate state for the Nepali-speaking population in Darjeeling and its vicinity made by the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF).
Author : Barun Roy
Publisher : Barun Roy
ISBN 13 : 9810786468
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Gorkhas and Gorkhaland written by Barun Roy and published by Barun Roy . This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive socio-political study of the Gorkha people and their demand for the separate state of Gorkhaland
Author : Townsend Middleton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199093970
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Darjeeling Reconsidered written by Townsend Middleton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 reexamination of the legend and hard realities of this oft-romanticized region.
Author : Sarah Besky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520277392
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Darjeeling Distinction written by Sarah Besky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : reinventing the plantation for the 21st century -- Darjeeling -- Plantation -- Property -- Fairness -- Sovereignty -- Conclusion : is something better than nothing?
Author : Tanka Bahadur Subba
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House Private
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ethnicity, State, and Development written by Tanka Bahadur Subba and published by Vikas Publishing House Private. This book was released on 1992 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Prajwal Parajuly
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623651468
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)
Download or read book The Gurkha's Daughter written by Prajwal Parajuly and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number one bestseller in India and a shortlisted nomination for the Dylan Thomas Prize, The Gurkha's Daughter is a distinctive debut from a rising star in South Asian literature. This collection of stories captures the textures and sounds of the Nepalese diaspora through eight intimate, nuanced portraits, taking us from the hillside city of Darjeeling, India to a tucked away Nepalese restaurant in New York City. The daily struggles of Parajuly's characters reveal histories of war, colonial occupation, religious division, systemized oppression, and dispossession in the diverse geographical intersection of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, and China. In a cruel remark by a wealthy doctor to her tenant shopkeeper, we hear the persistent injustice of the caste system; in the contentious relationship between a wealthy widow and her sister-in-law, we glimpse the restricted lives and submissive social roles of Nepalese women; and in a daughter's relationship with her father, we find a dissonance between modernity and tradition that has echoed through the generations in unexpected ways. Across different ethnicities, religions, and other social distinctions, the characters in these share a universal yearning, not just for survival but for a better life; one with love, dignity, and community. In The Gurkha's Daughter, Parajuly reveals the small acts of bravery--the sustaining, driving hope--that bind together the human experience.
Author : Delhi Press
Publisher : Delhi Press Magazine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Alive written by Delhi Press and published by Delhi Press Magazine. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative, inspiring and incisive issue that helps go-ahead men lead a better life. Its special attraction is an exhaustive review of current, much-talked-about books.
Author : Delhi Press
Publisher : Delhi Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Caravan written by Delhi Press and published by Delhi Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The country's first and only publication devoted to narrative journalism, The Caravan occupies a singular position among Indian magazines. It is a new kind of magazine for a new kind of reader, one who demands both style and substance. Since its relaunch in January 2010, the magazine has earned a reputation as one of the country's most sophisticated publications-a showcase for the region's finest writers and a distinctive blend of rigorous reporting, incisive criticism and commentary, stunning photo essays, and gripping new fiction and poetry. Its commitment to great storytelling has earned it the respect of readers from around the world. "India's best English language magazine", The Guardian, London "For those with an interest in India, it has become an absolute must-read", The New Republic, Washington The Caravan fills a niche in the Indian media that has remained vacant for far too long, catering to the intellectually curious and aesthetically refined reader, who seeks a magazine of exceptional quality.
Author : Kiran Desai
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555845916
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)
Download or read book The Inheritance of Loss written by Kiran Desai and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize: An “extraordinary” novel “lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender” (The New York Times Book Review). In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered old judge wants only to retire in peace. But his life is upended when his sixteen-year-old orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s chatty cook watches over the girl, but his thoughts are mostly with his son, Biju, hopscotching from one miserable New York restaurant job to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS. When a Nepalese insurgency threatens Sai’s new-sprung romance with her tutor, the household descends into chaos. The cook witnesses India’s hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge revisits his past and his role in Sai and Biju’s intertwining lives. In a grasping world of colliding interests and conflicting desires, every moment holds out the possibility for hope or betrayal. Published to extraordinary acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. She illuminates the pain of exile and the ambiguities of postcolonialism with a tapestry of colorful characters and “uncannily beautiful” prose (O: The Oprah Magazine). “A book about tradition and modernity, the past and the future—and about the surprising ways both amusing and sorrowful, in which they all connect.” —The Independent
Author : Lalan Tiwari
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170996187
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Issues in Indian Politics written by Lalan Tiwari and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays, chiefly relating to the early 1980s till date.
Author : Farhana Ibrahim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108844510
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book South Asian Borderlands written by Farhana Ibrahim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on the historical, temporal and affective dimensions of borderlands and how they manifest in historical and contemporary experiences.
Author : Townsend Middleton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804796300
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Demands of Recognition written by Townsend Middleton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities, achieve greater prosperity, and secure political rights. In this groundbreaking study, Townsend Middleton tracks these newfound "lives" of anthropology. Offering simultaneous ethnographies of the people of Darjeeling's quest for "tribal" status and the government anthropologists handling their claims, Middleton exposes how minorities are—and are not—recognized for affirmative action and autonomy. We encounter communities putting on elaborate spectacles of sacrifice, exorcism, bows and arrows, and blood drinking to prove their "primitiveness" and "backwardness." Conversely, we see government anthropologists struggle for the ethnographic truth as communities increasingly turn academic paradigms back upon the state. The Demands of Recognition offers a compelling look at the escalating politics of tribal recognition in India. At once ethnographic and historical, it chronicles how multicultural governance has motivated the people of Darjeeling to ethnologically redefine themselves—from Gorkha to tribal and back. But as these communities now know, not all forms of difference are legible in the eyes of the state. The Gorkhas' search for recognition has only amplified these communities' anxieties about who they are—and who they must be—if they are to attain the rights, autonomy, and belonging they desire.
Author : Townsend Middleton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520399129
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Quinine's Remains written by Townsend Middleton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What happens after colonial industries have run their course—after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the cinchona plantations of India’s Darjeeling Hills, Quinine’s Remains chronicles the history and aftermaths of quinine. Harvested from cinchona bark, quinine was malaria’s only remedy until the twentieth-century advent of synthetic drugs, and it was vital to the British Empire. Today, the cinchona plantations—and the roughly fifty thousand people who call them home—remain. Their futures, however, are unclear. The Indian government has threatened to privatize or shut down this seemingly obsolete and crumbling industry, but the plantation community, led by strident trade unions, has successfully resisted. Overgrown cinchona fields and shuttered quinine factories may appear the stuff of postcolonial and postindustrial ruination, but quinine’s remains are not dead. Rather, they have become the site of urgent efforts to redefine land and life for the twenty-first century. Quinine's Remains offers a vivid historical and ethnographic portrait of what it means to forge life after empire.
Author : Sagar Simlandy
Publisher : BFC Publications
ISBN 13 : 9390880203
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (98 download)
Download or read book History of India & Abroad written by Sagar Simlandy and published by BFC Publications. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian history and culture are dynamic, spanning back to the beginning of human civilization. It began with a mysterious culture that flourished along the Indus River as well as among the farming communities in the southern lands of India. And the history of India is punctuated by constant integration of migrating people with the diverse cultures that surrounded India. Available evidence suggests that the use of iron, copper, and other metals was widely prevalent in the Indian sub-continent at a fairly early period, which is indicative of the progress that this part of the world had made by the end of the fourth millennium BC. History is the chronological study of the life and civilization of human beings. To develop linkage with the past and the present through continuous dialogues between the experience of past and that of the present is the fundamental mission of history. So, the historian E H Car aptly says that the great writing of history becomes successful only when the search done by the historians illuminates and involves it with the problems of present age. The tested truth is that achieving knowledge from the experience of history acts as constant in the different socio-economic and political contexts. But the approaches to studying history are continuously informed by the changing circumstances and consequently modified from time to time in keeping with the demands of time and space. New ideas and views develop in the present and futures times in the light of experiences of history.
