Across Peaks & Passes in Darjeeling & Sikkim

Across Peaks & Passes in Darjeeling & Sikkim
Title Across Peaks & Passes in Darjeeling & Sikkim PDF eBook
Author Harish Kapadia
Publisher Indus Publishing
Pages 224
Release 2001
Genre History
ISBN 9788173871269

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Headstrap

Headstrap
Title Headstrap PDF eBook
Author Nandini Purandare
Publisher Mountaineers Books
Pages 276
Release 2024-04-01
Genre History
ISBN 1680516418

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This captivating chronicle delves into the untold story of a tribe of people who have played a significant role in mountain exploration and climbing in the Himalayas. Situated in northern India, Darjeeling was developed as a colonial retreat by the British in the early 1830s and soon became famous for its tea gardens, attracting locals from around the region, Nepal, and Tibet in search of work. When Darjeeling became the jumping-off point for early Himalayan expeditions, workers from the Sherpa and Bhutia communities soon established themselves as the preferred high-altitude porters, bringing fame, entwined with tales of valor, courage, and sacrifice, to the city. These are some of their stories. Over the course of a decade, authors Nandini Purandare and Deepa Balsavar conducted a series of interviews with Sherpas from Darjeeling, as well as their family members, descendants, friends, and contemporary climbers. Headstrap weaves a vivid tapestry of this particular Sherpa community, giving them the recognition in mountaineering literature that they deserve.

Darjeeling

Darjeeling
Title Darjeeling PDF eBook
Author Dinesh Chandra Ray
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 300
Release 2022-12-22
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1000828808

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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 objectives of the book are to focus on un­documented histories related to harmony, intimacy, belongingness and environ­mental care and thereby, interact the living with what is often projected as ‘dead’, by rejecting to abide by any given set of references as the final/‘scientific’/authentic and, thereby, opening up with other kinds of historical dialogue with the understated historical items that are accessible in Darjeeling. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print version of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Into the Untravelled Himalaya

Into the Untravelled Himalaya
Title Into the Untravelled Himalaya PDF eBook
Author Harish Kapadia
Publisher Indus Publishing
Pages 294
Release 2005
Genre Travel
ISBN 9788173871818

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Himalayan Kingdom Bhutan

Himalayan Kingdom Bhutan
Title Himalayan Kingdom Bhutan PDF eBook
Author Awadhesh Coomar Sinha
Publisher Indus Publishing
Pages 284
Release 2001
Genre Bhutan
ISBN 9788173871191

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Predominantly on contemporary politics of Bhutan.

Khasi Society of Meghalaya

Khasi Society of Meghalaya
Title Khasi Society of Meghalaya PDF eBook
Author Aurelius Kyrham Nongkinrih
Publisher Indus Publishing
Pages 196
Release 2002
Genre Khasi (Indic people)
ISBN 9788173871375

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Study based on Kongthong village in Meghalaya, India.

Across Peaks & Passes in Ladakh, Zanskar & East Karakoram

Across Peaks & Passes in Ladakh, Zanskar & East Karakoram
Title Across Peaks & Passes in Ladakh, Zanskar & East Karakoram PDF eBook
Author Harish Kapadia
Publisher Indus Publishing
Pages 318
Release 1999
Genre Travel
ISBN 9788173871009

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