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

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Synopsis
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 Darjeeling hills. The present volume tries to fill this gap of the missing voices of the people of the Darjeeling hills and their cultures through re-writing inclusive history of society and culture from ‘below’, not only by de­coding the elements that are treated as tradition, but also the trans­formations in the realms of arts and ecology. For, the tribal-scape of the Darjeeling hills is not a static/frozen zone and the people (hence, the geo-space) are in continuous transition from traditional beings towards becoming neo-traditional. Accepting history as constantly ‘extra mural’ the objectives of the book are to focus on un­documented histories related to harmony, intimacy, belongingness and environ­mental care and thereby, interact the living with what is often projected as ‘dead’, by rejecting to abide by any given set of references as the final/‘scientific’/authentic and, thereby, opening up with other kinds of historical dialogue with the understated historical items that are accessible in Darjeeling. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print version of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Copyright:
2023

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
388 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000828801
Related ISBNs:
9781003362791, 9781032424460, 9781032424453
Publisher:
Manohar
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Dinesh Chandra Ray, Srikanta Roy Chowdhury and Manohar Publishers
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Dinesh Chandra Ray
Edited by:
Srikanta Roy Chowdhury

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