Exploring Roots of Ethnic Convergence of the Indigenous and the Exogenous Hill People: A Historical Study of Colonial Darjeeling
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2017-03
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Karatoya : North Bengal University journal of History
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Lama, Sudash
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University of North Bengal
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Sarkar, T. (2017). Exploring Roots of Ethnic Convergence of the Indigenous and the Exogenous Hill People: A Historical Study of Colonial Darjeeling. Karatoya : North Bengal University Journal of History, 10, 281–297. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3905
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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.
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10
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281 - 297