Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands : : Kalimpong as a "contact zone" / / Markus Viehbeck, editor.
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,...
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| Superior document: | Heidelberg studies on transculturality |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Heidelberg : : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP),, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heidelberg studies on transculturality.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 350 pages) :; illustrations. |
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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.