Through the India-China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas (Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches) (PDF)

By Prem Poddar, Lisa Lindkvist Zhang Through the India-China Border mobilizes rarely used documentary material from British, Chinese and Indian archives to shed new light on our understanding of the ‘Tibet Question’ in China-India relations. Focused on the Himalayan border town of Kalimpong from the 1920s to 1962, it unearths a history of espionage and political intrigue that challenges the way that remote peripheries are seen from the ‘centres’ of nations. The innovative use of postcolonial and transcultural theory demonstrates how a multidisciplinary framework augments our reading of imperial histories, postwar politics, decolonisation and frontier cultures. Kalimpong emerges from this analysis as a key node in Himalayan history and in the mid-century fashioning of India-China relations.
Product Details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 23, 2025
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1009499351
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1009499354