Darjeeling Reconsidered: Histories, Politics, Environments 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0199093970
• ISBN-13: 9780199093977
• Author: Sara Shneiderman, Townsend Middleton

Darjeeling occupies a special place in the South Asian imaginary with its Himalayan vistas, lush tea gardens, and brisk mountain air. Thousands of tourists, domestic and international, annually flock to the hills to taste their world-renowned tea and soak up the colonial nostalgia. Darjeeling Reconsidered rethinks Darjeeling’s status in the postcolonial imagination. Mobilizing diverse disciplinary approaches from the social sciences and humanities, this definitive collection of essays sheds fresh light on the region’s past and offers critical insight into the issues facing its people today. While the historical analyses provide alternative readings of the systems of governance, labour, and migration that shaped Darjeeling, the ethnographic chapters present accounts of dynamics that define life in twenty-first century Darjeeling, including the Gorkhaland Movement, Fair Trade tea, indigenous and subnationalist struggle, gendered inequality, ecological transformation, and resource scarcity. The volume figures Darjeeling as a vital site for South Asian and postcolonial studies and calls for a timely reexamination of the legend and hard realities of this oft-romanticized region.

Table contents:

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

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

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

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