Through the India-China Border

Kalimpong in the Himalayas

von Lisa Lindkvist Zhang, Prem Poddar

310 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Geschichte anderer geografischer Gruppierungen
• ISBN: 9781009499323
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2026
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press