TY  - BOOK
ED  - Shneiderman, Sara
ED  - Middleton, Townsend
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Darjeeling reconsidered: histories, politics, environments
ET  - First edition
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - New Delhi
KW  - Social movements
KW  - India
KW  - Darjeeling
KW  - Tea trade
KW  - Employees
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Darjeeling (India)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - History
AB  - Darjeeling occupies a special place in the South Asian imaginary. With its Himalayan vistas, lush tea gardens, and brisk mountain air, Darjeeling was the consummate colonial hill-station. The romance with the 'queen of the hills' lives on, as thousands of tourists (domestic and international) annually flock to the hills to taste its world-renowned tea, soak up the colonial nostalgia, and glimpse mighty Mount Kanchenjunga. Darjeeling's fame has now gone global and its legacy continues to fuel Hollywood and Bollywood fantasies. But this is only part of Darjeeling's story ...
SN  - 9780199483556
LA  - English
N1  - edited by Townsend Middleton and Sara Shneiderman
ID  - 101032182X
ER  -