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Gorkhaland and beyond
Responses to the Gorkhaland agitation demonstrate the one-size-fits-all policy identity movements in India encounter.
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Beyond sausages and poached eggs
Fiction: Below are the ramblings of an inhabitant of Darjeeling whom I often happen to meet. They are the words we have been hearing in the hills since the beginning of the Gorkhaland agitation in …
Satyadip S Chhetri | Dec 27, 2013
How not to write a history of Gorkhaland
Romit Bagchi's book on Darjeeling and the Gorkhaland movement rings hollow.
Sumana Roy | Feb 22, 2013
People of a Southasian past
A colonial experiment in ethnographic photography offers a rare glimpse into Southasia’s communities circa the 19th century
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Premature Gorkhaland
This is a translation from a Nepali-language article that originally appeared in the Kathmandu-based Himal Khabarpatrika, 15-29 June 2010.
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