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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 de­coding the elements that are treated as tradition, but also the trans­formations 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 objec

Darjeeling

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Imprint Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 1/26/2024
      ISBN-13 9781032424460
      978-1032424460
      ISBN-10 103242446X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 de­coding the elements that are treated as tradition, but also the trans­formations 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 objec

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