Transcultural encounters in the Himalayan borderlands : Kalimpong as a "contact zone"
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Added Date: 2020-03-06
Language: eng
Subjects: History, Migration, Ethnology, Kalimpong, Transkulturality, Himalayas, Open Access Books, Multiculturalism -- India -- Kālimpong -- Congresses, Multiculturalism -- Himalaya Mountains Region -- Congresses, Cultural relations -- Congresses, Civilization, Cultural relations, Multiculturalism, Kālimpong (India) -- Civilization -- Congresses, Himalaya Mountains Region -- Civilization -- Congresses, Himalaya Mountains Region, India -- Kālimpong
Publishers: Heidelberg : Heidelberg University Publishing
Collections: IndiaHistory, JaiGyan
ISBN Number: 9783946054566, 3946054560, 9783946054658, 394605465X
Pages Count: 300
PPI Count: 300
PDF Count: 1
Total Size: 195.44 MB
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Book Series: Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality
Abstract
This collaborative study investigates the hill station of Kalimpong and the larger Eastern Himalayan borderlands as a paradigmatic case of a “contact zone.” In the colonial and early post-colonial era, this space enabled a variety of encounters: between (British) India, Tibet, and China, but also Nepal and Bhutan; between Christian mission and Himalayan religions; between global flows of money and information and local markets and practices. Using a plethora of local and global historical s, the contributing essays follow the pathways of people from diverse cultural backgrounds and investigate the new forms of knowledge and practice that resulted from their encounters and their shifting power relations. The volume provides not only a nuanced historiography of Kalimpong and its adjacent areas, but also a conceptual model for studying transcultural processes in borderland spaces and their colonial and post-colonial dynamics.
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