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Darjeeling - In Search of People's History of the Hills (Hardcover)
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Darjeeling - In Search of People's History of the Hills (Hardcover)
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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 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 de coding the
elements that are treated as tradition, but also the trans
formations 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 un documented histories related to harmony, intimacy,
belongingness and environ mental 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.
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