Offering a timely challenge to popular conceptions of Darjeeling, the 'queen of the hills', this collection of essays provocatively rethinks Darjeeling's place in the postcolonial imagination. Combining the best of the social sciences and humanities, Darjeeling Reconsidered sheds fresh light on the region's past and offers critical insight into the issues facing its people today. Doing so, it frames Darjeeling as a crucial site for South Asian and PostcolonialStudies.
Offering a timely challenge to popular conceptions of Darjeeling, the 'queen of the hills', this collection of essays provocatively rethinks Darjeeling's place in the postcolonial imagination. Combining the best of the social sciences and humanities, Darjeeling Reconsidered sheds fresh light on the region's past and offers critical insight into the issues facing its people today. Doing so, it frames Darjeeling as a crucial site for South Asian and PostcolonialStudies.
Townsend Middleton teaches in the Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Sara Shneiderman teaches in the Department of Anthropology and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs/Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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* Dedication * Acknowledgements * Acronyms and Abbreviations * Note on Language * Introduction: Reconsidering Darjeeling * Sara Shneiderman and Townsend Middleton * 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 * Tanka Subba * Glossary * Bibliography * Index * About the Editors and Contributors
* Dedication * Acknowledgements * Acronyms and Abbreviations * Note on Language * Introduction: Reconsidering Darjeeling * Sara Shneiderman and Townsend Middleton * 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 * Tanka Subba * Glossary * Bibliography * Index * About the Editors and Contributors
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