Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands : : Kalimpong as a "contact zone" / / Markus Viehbeck, editor.

• Superior document: Heidelberg studies on transculturality
• TeilnehmendeR: Viehbeck, Markus,
• Place / Publishing House: Heidelberg : : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP),, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heidelberg studies on transculturality.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 350 pages) :; illustrations.

The present study examines Kalimpong and the surrounding border areas of the eastern Himalayas as a paradigmatic case of a "contact zone". In the colonial period as well as in the early post-colonial era, this space enabled a variety of encounters: between (British) India, Tibet and China, but also Nepal and Bhutan; between Christian mission and the religions of the Himalayas; between global flows of money and information and local markets and practices. Using a wealth of local and global historical sources, each contribution traces the paths of actors from different cultural backgrounds and examines the new forms of knowledge and practices that emerged from their encounters and their shifting power relations.

Table of Contents

Table of contents -- Front Matter -- acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Cultural History as a History of Encounters - A "Contact Perspective" -- Part I: Christian Mission, Educational Institutions, and Identity Formation -- Part II: Public Spheres, Public Media, and the Creation of Public Knowledge -- Part III: Things that Connect: Economies and Material Culture -- Part IV: Scholars, Power, and Knowledge Production -- epilogue -- List of Contributors.