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Competition, Unfair --- Social aspects --- Darjeeling (India) --- Economic conditions.
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Longevity and long-life practices have been a pan-Tibetan concern for a very long time, but have hardly been studied by anthropologists. This book presents ethnographic accounts and textual material demonstrating how Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India, view the life-span and map out certain life-forces in various areas of knowledge. These life-forces follow daily, monthly, and annual cycles. Divinations and astrological calculations are widely but varyingly used by Tibetans to assess the strength of life-forces and forecast difficult periods in their lives. Loss, exhaustion, or periodic weaknesses of life-forces are treated medically or through Tibetan Buddhist practices and rituals. In all these events, temporality and agency are deeply interlinked in the ways in which Tibetans enhance their vitality, prolong their life-spans, and avoid ‘untimely deaths.’
Tibetans --- Tibetans --- Longevity --- Life span, Productive --- Old age --- Social conditions. --- Religion. --- Darjeeling (India : District) --- Darjeeling (India : District) --- Religious life and customs. --- Social life and customs.
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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.
Sustainable development --- Social movements --- Tea trade --- Politics and government. --- Social movements. --- Sustainable development. --- Tea trade --- Employees. --- Employees. --- Darjeeling (India) --- Darjeeling (India) --- Politics and government. --- History.
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All aboard for a delicious ride on nine legendary railway journeys! Meals associated with train travel have been an important aspect of railway history for more than a century - from dinners in dining cars to lunches at station buffets to foods purchased from platform vendors. For many travellers, the experience of eating on a railway journey is often a highlight of the trip, a major part of the 'romance of the rails'. Food on the Move focuses on the culinary history of these famous journeys on five continents, from the earliest days of rail travel to the present. The engaging story and vivid illustrations invite readers to discover an array of railway feasts: haute cuisine in the elegant dining carriages of the Orient Express, American steak-and-eggs on the Santa Fe Super Chief, and home-cooked regional foods along the Trans-Siberian tracks. Readers will be tempted to eat their way across Canada's vast interior and Australia's spectacular and colourful Outback; grab an infamous 'British railway sandwich' to munch on the Flying Scotsman; snack on spicy samosas on the Darjeeling Himalayan 'Toy Train'; dine at high speed on Japan's 'Bullet Train'; and sip South African wines in a Blue Train luxury lounge car featuring windows of glass fused with gold dust. Written by eight different authors who have travelled on those legendary lines, the book include recipes, from the dining cars and station eateries, taken from historical menus and contributed by contemporary chefs. Food on the Move is a veritable feast!
Flying Scotsman (Locomotive). --- Velikai︠a︡ Sibirskai︠a︡ magistralʹ. --- Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. --- Dining cars. --- Food --- History
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Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is also home to a violent movement for regional autonomy that, like the tea industry, dates back to the days of colonial rule. In this nuanced ethnography, Sarah Besky narrates the lives of tea workers in Darjeeling. She explores how notions of fairness, value, and justice shifted with the rise of fair-trade practices and postcolonial separatist politics in the region. This is the first book to explore how fair-trade operates in the context of large-scale plantations. Readers in a variety of disciplines-anthropology, sociology, geography, environmental studies, and food studies-will gain a critical perspective on how plantation life is changing as Darjeeling struggles to reinvent its signature commodity for twenty-first-century consumers. The Darjeeling Distinction challenges fair-trade policy and practice, exposing how trade initiatives often fail to consider the larger environmental, historical, and sociopolitical forces that shape the lives of the people they intended to support.
Competition, Unfair -- India -- Darjeeling (District). --- Tea plantations -- India -- Darjeeling (District). --- Tea trade -- India -- Darjeeling (District). --- Tea trade --- Tea plantations --- Competition, Unfair --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- Tea industry --- Competition --- Competition law --- Fair trade --- Unfair competition --- Unfair trade practices --- Law and legislation --- Beverage industry --- Plantations --- Commercial crimes --- Commercial law --- Industrial property --- Torts --- Advertising laws --- E-books --- Social Sciences and Humanities. Economics --- International Economy --- International Trade. --- Economic Theory --- Welfare Theory. --- anthropology. --- colonial rule. --- darjeeling. --- disciplines. --- environmental studies. --- expensive tea. --- fair trade practices. --- fairness. --- geography. --- himalayan foothills. --- justice. --- northeast india. --- nuanced ethnography. --- postcolonial separatist politics. --- region. --- regional autonomy. --- sociology. --- tea industry. --- tea leaves. --- tea workers. --- value. --- violent movement.
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"This New York Times bestselling overview of Wes Anderson's filmography features previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photos, artwork, and ephemera, with an introduction by Michael Chabon. Writer/director Wes Anderson guides movie/television critic Matt Zoller Seitz through Anderson's life and career in a hardcover book-length conversation, woven together with original illustrations and production images from Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Moonrise Kingdom."--
Film --- motion pictures [visual works] --- illustrations [layout features] --- Anderson, Wes --- film --- filmregisseurs --- Verenigde Staten --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- Anderson Wes --- 791.471 ANDERSON --- 798.53 --- animatie --- animatiefilm --- regisseurs --- regie --- cinema --- cineasten --- Bottle Rocket --- Rushmore --- The Royal Tenenbaums --- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou --- The Darjeeling Limited --- Fantastic Mr. Fox --- Moonrise Kingdom --- film, cineasten
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Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities, achieve greater prosperity, and secure political rights. In this groundbreaking study, Townsend Middleton tracks these newfound "lives" of anthropology. Offering simultaneous ethnographies of the people of Darjeeling's quest for "tribal" status and the government anthropologists handling their claims, Middleton exposes how minorities are—and are not—recognized for affirmative action and autonomy. We encounter communities putting on elaborate spectacles of sacrifice, exorcism, bows and arrows, and blood drinking to prove their "primitiveness" and "backwardness." Conversely, we see government anthropologists struggle for the ethnographic truth as communities increasingly turn academic paradigms back upon the state. The Demands of Recognition offers a compelling look at the escalating politics of tribal recognition in India. At once ethnographic and historical, it chronicles how multicultural governance has motivated the people of Darjeeling to ethnologically redefine themselves—from Gorkha to tribal and back. But as these communities now know, not all forms of difference are legible in the eyes of the state. The Gorkhas' search for recognition has only amplified these communities' anxieties about who they are—and who they must be—if they are to attain the rights, autonomy, and belonging they desire.
Gorkha (South Asian people) --- Ethnology --- Ethnicity --- Identity politics --- Identity (Psychology) --- Politics of identity --- Political participation --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Ghoorka (South Asian people) --- Ghurka (South Asian people) --- Goorkha (South Asian people) --- Gurkha (South Asian people) --- Gurkhas --- Politics and government. --- Government relations. --- Ethnic identity. --- Political aspects --- Darjeeling (India : District) --- Dārjiliṃ Jelā (India) --- Dārjiling (India : District) --- Scheduled tribes --- Government policy.
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This book presents a close look at the growth, success, and proliferation of ethnic politics on the peripheries of modern South Asia, built around a case study of the Nepal ethnic group that lives in the borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling, and east Nepal. Grounded in historical and ethnographic research, it critically examines the relationship between culture and politics in a geographical space that is home to a diverse range of ethnic identities, showing how new modes of political representation, cultural activism, and everyday politics have emerged from the region.
Ethnische Identität --- Gurkha --- Separatismus --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. --- Politische Bewegung --- Autonomiebewegung --- Partikularismus --- Unabhängigkeitsbewegung --- Separatist --- Gorkha --- Ghurka --- Nepal --- Gruppenidentität --- Rassische Identität --- Rassisches Bewusstsein --- Rassenidentität --- Identität --- Ethnizität --- Kulturelle Identität --- Ethnische Gruppe --- Ethnie --- Rasse --- Sikkim (India) --- Darjeeling (India : District) --- Dārjiliṃ Jelā (India) --- Dārjiling (India : District) --- Sikhim (India) --- Sikkim --- Sikkima (India) --- Politics and government. --- Ethnicity --- Democracy --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Political aspects --- South Asia --- Ethnic Politics, Democracy, Cultural Revivalism, Borderlands, Eastern Himalaya.
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Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of the British Raj; and in the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal, which produced tea for the global market. This book studies the demographic and environmental transformation of the region: the racialization of urban spaces and its contestations, establishment of hill sanatoria, expansion of tea cultivation, labour emigration and the paternalistic modes of healthcare in the plantation. It examines how the threat of epidemics and riots informed the conflictual relationship between the plantations with the adjacent agricultural villages and district towns. It reveals how Tropical Medicine was practised in its 'field'; researches in malaria, hookworm, dysentery, cholera and leprosy were informed by investigations here, and the exigencies of the colonial state, private entrepreneurship, and municipal governance subverted their implementation. Contagion and Enclaves establishes the vital link between medicine, the political economy and the social history of colonialism. It demonstrates that while enclaves were essential and distinctive sites of articulation of colonial power and economy, they were not isolated sites. The book shows that the critical aspect of the enclaves was in their interconnectedness; with other enclaves, with the global economy and international medical research.
Public health --- Social medicine --- Medical care --- Medical sociology --- Medicine --- Medicine, Social --- Public welfare --- Sociology --- Medical ethics --- Medical sociologists --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- History. --- Social aspects --- India --- Indland --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Republic of India --- Bhārata --- Indii︠a︡ --- Inde --- Indië --- Indien --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- Bharat --- Government of India --- インド --- Indo --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- Segregation. --- Public health. --- Medical care. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- MEDICAL --- HISTORY --- HEALTH & FITNESS --- Humanities. --- History: specific events and topics. --- Colonialism and imperialism. --- Ségrégation --- Santé publique --- Segregation --- Disease & Health Issues. --- Public Health. --- Health Policy. --- Health Care Delivery. --- Diseases. --- India & South Asia. --- Health Care Issues. --- Diseases --- General. --- Histoire --- History --- India. --- Conditions sociales --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Desegregation --- Race discrimination --- Minorities --- Indi --- Indii͡ --- هند --- Индия --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Descriptive sociology --- Social history --- Postcolonial --- Bengal --- Darjeeling --- Darjeeling district --- Dooars --- Kolkata --- Malaria --- Tea --- Terai
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Buddhism --- Mallika --- Bhadda Kundalakesa --- Upasika Vishakha --- Upasaka Anathapindika --- Nagarjuna --- Donpa --- Ma-chig-Lab-dron --- Tibetan Buddhism --- Chod --- Buddhism in the West --- I.B. Horner and the twentieth-century development of Buddhism in the West --- Takyu --- Ch'an Temple in the English Midlands --- Lao --- conversion --- devotion --- Ole Nydahl --- Noah Levine --- Buddhist meditation --- beat poets --- Allen Ginsberg --- Stephen John Fulder --- Vipassana in Israel --- Amala Sensei --- Zen priests --- Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia --- Pawinee Bunkhun --- Thai Buddhism --- Upasika --- Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma --- Sudinna --- the Sri Lankan Army --- the Buddhist Sangha --- Maechii Wabi of Thailand --- Theravada modernist Buddhism --- Nepal --- Buddhism in the Himalayan region --- Tenpe Gyaltsen --- the Fifth Jamyang Zhepa --- female Tibetan Buddhism --- Darjeeling --- Tsultrim Zangmo --- Bakula Arhat --- the 19th Kushok Bakula --- Russia --- Mongolia --- Tashi Dondrup --- doctrine --- Tibetan lineage masters --- the ethos of altruistic action --- practical Dharma --- Chomo Khandru --- the Himalayan Bon tradition --- Pelling Ani Wangdzin --- Buddhism in East Asia --- Japanese Buddhist priests --- Toshihide Numata --- Seno'o Giro --- radical Buddhism --- social engagement --- Nichiren Buddhism --- Soka Gakkai Buddhism in Japan --- Fazun --- Dharani --- Li --- Soka Gakkai (創価学会) --- Japanese new religious movements
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