Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands

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 Ne...

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Main Author:	Viehbeck, Markus
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP) 2021
Subjects:	kalimpong transkulturality himalayas Buddhism Darjeeling India Lepcha people Tibet Tibetan people thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
Online Access:	1000416
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