Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands : : Kalimpong as a "Contact Zone" / / edited by Markus Viehbeck.

• TeilnehmendeR: Viehbeck, Markus,
• Place / Publishing House: Heidelberg : : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP),, 2017.; ©2017
• Año de Publicación: 2017
• Lenguaje: English
• Descripción Física: 1 online resource (360 pages)

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...