Darjeeling reconsidered : histories, politics, environments /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Description:	xviii, 316 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Social movements -- India -- Darjeeling (District) Tea trade -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- Employees. Sustainable development -- India -- Darjeeling (District) Politics and government. Social movements. Sustainable development. Tea trade -- Employees. Darjeeling (India : District) -- History. Darjeeling (India : District) -- Politics and government. India -- Darjeeling (District) India -- Darjeeling. Informational works. History. Informational works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13486766

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Other authors / contributors:	Middleton, Townsend, editor. Shneiderman, Sara, 1975- editor.
ISBN:	9780199483556 0199483558 9780199093977 0199093970
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Darjeeling occupies a special place in the South Asian imaginary. With its Himalayan vistas, lush tea gardens, and brisk mountain air, Darjeeling was the consummate colonial hill-station. The romance with the 'queen of the hills' lives on, as thousands of tourists (domestic and international) annually flock to the hills to taste its world-renowned tea, soak up the colonial nostalgia, and glimpse mighty Mount Kanchenjunga. Darjeeling's fame has now gone global and its legacy continues to fuel Hollywood and Bollywood fantasies. But this is only part of Darjeeling's story.

Table of Contents:

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Note on Language
Introduction: Reconsidering Darjeeling
Section I. Histories of Exception
1. Unwritten Histories: Difference, Capital, and the Darjeeling Exception
2. 'A Summer Place': Darjeeling in the Tourist Gaze
3. Himalayan Darjeeling and Mountain Histories of Labour and Mobility
Section II. Politics and Social Movements
4. Electoral Competition and the Gorkhaland Movement
5. Virtuous Movements and Dirty Politics: The Art of Camouflage in Darjeeling
6. The Rowdies of Darjeeling: Politics and Underdevelopment in the Hills
7. The Quest to Belong and Become: Ethnic Associations and Changing Trajectories of Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling
8. The Promise of Class Analysis in Understanding Nepali National Identity in Darjeeling: An Engagement with Kumar Pradhan's Work and Thought
Section III. Environments and Labour
9. Subnational Occupations: A Year in the Life of the Darjeeling Tea Management Training Centre
10. Connection amidst Disconnection: Water Struggles, Social Structures, and Geographies of Exclusion in Darjeeling
11. Women, Fair Trade Tea, and Everyday Entrepreneurialism in Rural Darjeeling
Afterword
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Editors and Contributors

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