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Author : Tanka Bahadur Subba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dynamics of a Hill Society written by Tanka Bahadur Subba and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mahendra P. Lama
Publisher : Indus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788173870132
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Sikkim written by Mahendra P. Lama and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Address Issues Like Integration Process, Development Interventions, Social Change, Strategic Volatility And Environmental Agenda, This Special Volume On Sikkim Has Been Brought Out.
Author : Fabienne Le Houérou
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 364391086X
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Behind The Bridge written by Fabienne Le Houérou and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After offering the reader the general context of Tibetan forced migration to India evoking Tibetan history, culture, the book looks closely at different methodologies using images. Classic ethnographic tools, such as film or relatively new methods, like photovoice or self-picturing are compared. The study sits at the crossroads of social science disciplines, such as history, ethnography, and geography and is based on original field research conducted in India since 2008. Majnu Ka Tilla is the name of the Tibetan colony in New Delhi and the preferential location of an experimental study related to memory and the spatial features of memory. The bridge is an ethnic frontier and a memorial urban point of reference creating the spatial memory. This publication is the result of years of experimental methodology using fixed and moving images with the Tibetan diaspora in India.
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 : Tanka Bahadur Subba
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125016939
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Politics of Culture written by Tanka Bahadur Subba and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the cultural proximity and the similar destinies of three Kirata communities living in the eastern Himalayas the Limbu, the Rai and the Yakkha. The author reconstructs the story of these communities on the basis of historical as well as ethnographic data and explains their need to reconstruct today an identity for themselves despite the time and cultural resources they have lost.
Author : Dane Kennedy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520311000
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Magic Mountains written by Dane Kennedy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows that these cloud-enshrouded havens were sites of both refuge and surveillance for British expatriates: sanctuaries from the harsh climate as well as an alien culture; artificial environments where colonial rulers could nurture, educate, and reproduce themselves; commanding heights from which orders could be issued with an Olympian authority. Kennedy charts the symbolic and sociopolitical functions of the hill stations over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arguing that these highland communities became much more significant to the British colonial government than mere places for rest and play. Particularly after the revolt of 1857, they became headquarters for colonial political and military authorities. In addition, the hill stations provided employment to countless Indians who worked as porters, merchants, government clerks, domestics, and carpenters. The isolation of British authorities at the hill stations reflected the paradoxical character of the British raj itself, Kennedy argues. While attempting to control its subjects, it remained aloof from Indian society. Ironically, as more Indians were drawn to these mountain areas for work, and later for vacation, the carefully guarded boundaries between the British and their subjects eroded. Kennedy argues that after the turn of the century, the hill stations were increasingly incorporated into the landscape of Indian social and cultural life. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
Author : Biswanath Ray
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170995272
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (952 download)
Download or read book West Bengal Today written by Biswanath Ray and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Study Covers The Prevalent Social, Economic And Demographic Features Of The State. A Seperate Chapter Electricity In West Bengal: Present Position And Future Prospect Lays Emphasis On The Prospects Of Extensive Generation Of Electricity In The State In Order To Meet Its Industrial Requirements.
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 : Dr.Kharingpam Ahum Chahong
Publisher : SLC India Publisher
ISBN 13 : 8196295677
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Re-Imagining Northeast Writings and Narratives: Language, Culture, and Border Identity written by Dr.Kharingpam Ahum Chahong and published by SLC India Publisher. This book was released on with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Re-Imagining Northeast Writings and Narratives: Language, Culture, and Border Identity" presents a collaborative effort to critically examine the concept of Northeast India, focusing on its linguistic, geographical, cultural, and social dimensions. Through a compilation of articles and essays, the volume delves into various aspects such as language, literature, culture, challenges, and the complexities of identity within the region. Each contribution offers detailed insights and findings, enhancing our understanding of Northeast India's diverse cultural landscape and the experiences of its people. By addressing themes of spatiality, movement, and responses to representations of the Northeast, the volume aims to deepen scholarly engagement with the region and stimulate discourse on its unique linguistic, cultural, and border dynamics. It serves as a valuable resource for researchers, scholars, and anyone interested in gaining a nuanced understanding of Northeast India and its intricate interplay of language, culture, and identity.
Author : Nandini Bhattacharya
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781386366
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Contagion and Enclaves written by Nandini Bhattacharya and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of the British Raj; and in the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal, which produced tea for the global market.
Author : Rajendra Pandey
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170992455
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (924 download)
Download or read book The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary Society written by Rajendra Pandey and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Neale
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312266233
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (662 download)
Download or read book Tigers of the Snow written by Jonathan Neale and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-29 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending almost a year in Nepal and India, Neale presents the true story of tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains and illuminates the gripping history of the Sherpa. 16-page photo insert.
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 : Sara Shneiderman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081229100X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Rituals of Ethnicity written by Sara Shneiderman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rituals of Ethnicity is a transnational study of the relationships between mobility, ethnicity, and ritual action. Through an ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones of Nepal, India, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, Shneiderman offers a new explanation for the persistence of enduring ethnic identities today despite the increasing realities of mobile, hybrid lives. She shows that ethnicization may be understood as a process of ritualization, which brings people together around the shared sacred object of identity. The first comprehensive ethnography of the Thangmi, Rituals of Ethnicity is framed by the Maoist-state civil conflict in Nepal and the movement for a separate state of Gorkhaland in India. The histories of individual nation-states in this geopolitical hotspot—as well as the cross-border flows of people and ideas between them—reveal the far-reaching and mutually entangled discourses of democracy, communism, development, and indigeneity that have transformed the region over the past half century. Attentive to the competing claims of diverse members of the Thangmi community, from shamans to political activists, Shneiderman shows how Thangmi ethnic identity is produced collaboratively by individuals through ritual actions embedded in local, national, and transnational contexts. She builds upon the specificity of Thangmi experiences to tell a larger story about the complexities of ethnic consciousness: the challenges of belonging and citizenship under conditions of mobility, the desire to both lay claim to and remain apart from the civil society of multiple states, and the paradox of self-identification as a group with cultural traditions in need of both preservation and development. Through deep engagement with a diverse, cross-border community that yearns to be understood as a distinctive, coherent whole, Rituals of Ethnicity presents an argument for the continued value of locally situated ethnography in a multisited world. Cover art: Lost Culture Can Not Be Reborn, painting by Mahendra Thami, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.
Author : Bethany Lacina
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472130242
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Rival Claims written by Bethany Lacina and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data-driven study of the relationship between ethnoterritorial conflict in India and the government's centralized power
Author : T. Raatan
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788178350684
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of North-East India written by T. Raatan and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The far-flung region of North-East remained neglected for centuries in the pre-Independence era. However an attempt has been made by the government to bifurcate it into eight states which have been dealt with in these three volumes. The contents have deep bearing on the land the people, production and mineral resource, economy and trade, education and efforts to promote literacy, enrolment of students both boys and girls, administrative and political struggle, principal deities in the state, popular dances, art and music, the economic development, relief measures and developmental schemes being implemented by the government, postal services and communication and last but not the least the provision of basic facilities like drinking water and medical. These volumes will be useful for teachers, statement scholars and students interested in deep details on North-East region.
Author : J. R. Subba
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788121209649
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (96 download)
Download or read book History, Culture and Customs of Sikkim written by J. R. Subba and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SIKKIM, the tiny Himalayan Kingdom came in existence in 1642 A.D. with a much larger area than it was in 1975 A.D. before it s integration in the Kingdom was the whole of Limbuwan, now the eastern most part of Nepal, southern parts of Tibet Autonomous region of China from Nathu La and Jelep La to the Tang La beyond Phari Jong, western Bhutan up to the watershed range between the Ammo Chu Valley and Har Chu Valley, and the northern plains of West Bengal as far south as Titalaiya and Purnea of Bihar. The Kingdom disintegrated in eight phases in different period of time when it s considerable areas were annexed by Bhutan, Nepal, China and British India of those days, and was finally integrated as one of the States of Indian Union in 1975 A.D. thereby loosing it s identity as a Himalayan Kingdom. The book provides insight into the history of its existence as the Himalayan Kingdom and it s disintegration in various phases, ethnicity, culture and customs of the people of Sikkim.
