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Darjeeling: In Search of People’s History of the Hills book cover

1st Edition

Darjeeling In Search of People’s History of the Hills

Edited By Dinesh Chandra Ray, Srikanta Roy Chowdhury Copyright 2023
388 Pages
by Routledge

388 Pages
by Routledge

388 Pages
by Routledge
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History has always dealt with people, yet often gazing at the people from the perspectives of the non-people – colonizers, intruders, outsiders and the privileged elite insiders – who seem to have internalized the ‘mainstream’ perspective framed by the outsiders. In this context a group of scholars working on Darjeeling felt that there was a need for an inclusive people’s history of the... Read more

Introduction

DINESH CHANDRA RAY and SRIKANTA ROY CHOWDHURY

PART 1: THEORETICAL CONCEPTS AND CONCERNS

1. Do ‘People’ Exist?: The Problems of Writing People’s History

TANKA B. SUBBA

2. Darjeeling: In Search of People’s History

ICCHIMUDDIN SARKAR

PART 2: DARJEELING HILLS AND THE COLONIZERS

3. A Discourse on Control, Discipline and Punishment: Prisons in Colonial Darjeeling (1835-1947)

DAHLIA BHATTACHARYA

4. Transforming Land and Landscape in Colonial Darjeeling: Readings in History

TAHITI SARKAR

5. Popularizing Western Sports in Darjeeling Hills: The Context of Educational Institutions

AWASHES SUBBA

6. Tourism and Recreation in Colonial Darjeeling: A Social History of Leisure

SUMAN MUKHERJEE

PART 3: PEOPLE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN IDENTITY

7. Multiple Imaginations: Exploration of the Different Notions of Homeland Present in the Darjeeling Hills

RAHUL GANGULY

8. The Formation of Nepal, Nepali and Gurkha in the Colonial Discourse

DEEPJOY KATUWAL

9. Contextualizing Nepali Nationalism in the History of Darjeeling: Issues and Challenges

SOMOSHREE DE

10. Geographies of Exclusion, Identity and Gorkhaland Movement

BISHAL CHHETRI

PART 4: PLURALITY AND SYNCRETISM

11. Cultural Pluralism in Darjeeling and Kalimpong: Reflections from Oral History

KISHAN HARIJAN

12. Christianity and Indigenization: Sociocultural Impact on the Lepchas of Darjeeling Hills

DEWAKAR THATAL

13. Politics of Ethnic Solidarity: A Post-colonial Analysis in Darjeeling Hills and sub-Himalayan Region of North Bengal

NIRMAL CHANDRA ROY

14. Cultural Synthesis of Darjeeling Concerning Leisure during Colonial Rule

VIVEK THAPA

PART 5: POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION: LANGUAGE, ARTS AND LITERATURE

15. Origin and Growth of Nepali Language in India: An Exploratory Survey

SUSHMA RAI

16. The Third Space in the Tea Garden Literature: Revisiting Select Works from Darjeeling

NIMA DOMA LAMA and RATHIKA SUBBA

17. Birth of ‘Gorkha Janapustakalaya’ in Kurseong: An Outcome of People’s Consciousness during the Colonial Period

ILLORA SHARMA

18. Ethnic and Cultural Identity in Music: Study of the Ethnomusic of Some of the Ethnic People of Darjeeling

SUDASH LAMA and ANAND SHERPA

PART 6: HISTORIES FROM THE PERIPHERY

19. The Unwritten History of the Balmiki Community in Darjeeling Hills: History from ‘Below’

LEKHRAJ BALMIKI

20. Misery of the Tea Garden Workers: Immediate Effect of the Garden Shutdown

SAURAV CHETTRI

Biography

Dinesh Chandra Ray, Ph.D., is presently Assistant Professor in History, Southfield College, Darjeeling. As Joint Editor he edited Dis­courses on Darjeeling Hills (2013).

Srikanta Roy Chowdhury, Ph.D., is presently Assistant Professor in History, Southfield College, Darjeeling. He has published From Bāngā­lār Itihāsa to Bāngālīr Itihāsa: History in Making (2007) and edited 1857: Text & Beyond (2013) and Darjeeling Hills University & the Prospects of Higher Education in the Hills (2020).

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