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Title: | Exploring Roots of Ethnic Convergence of the Indigenous and the Exogenous Hill People: A Historical Study of Colonial Darjeeling |
Other Titles: | Karatoya, NBU J. Hist. Vol 10, March 2017, p 281 - 297 |
Authors: | Sarkar, Tahiti |
Keywords: | Indigenous Exogenous People Colonial Darjeeling Ethnocide Governability Ethnic Consolidation |
Issue Date: | Mar-2017 |
Publisher: | University of North Bengal |
Abstract: | The Article posits that the mid-nineteenth to mid- twentieth century colonial material imperatives had congealed impacts on the indigenous people and the exogenous hill people settled in colonial Darjeeling. The study explores how the dialectics of such transformations gave rise to ethnocide of the indigenous population at the one end, and strong ethnic consolidation of the hill populations on the other. The idea of 'Other' being different from the people living in the plains was purposefully injected in the minds of the hill people by the colonizers which produced synergic effects. Throughout the colonial period, Darjeeling was administered differently. This idea of separate administration injected aspiration in the minds of the hill people who consolidated under a single umbrella of Nepali language as the lingua franca of the majority hill people. The hill people preferred Gorkha ethnic consolidation in place of Nepali to distinguish them from Nepalis of Nepal. The Article establishes that such ethnic consolidation has had its deep-seated roots in the nature of colonial governability. |
URI: | http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3905 |
ISSN: | 2229-4880 |
Appears in Collections: | Karatoya Vol.10 (March 2017) |
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