Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands : Kalimpong as a "Contact Zone"

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, b...

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Main Author: Viehbeck, Markus (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Heidelberg Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP) 2017
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