Darjeeling The Unhealed Wound

Author : C. R. Rai
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ISBN 13 : 9789356114470
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darjeeling written by C. R. Rai and published by . This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautiful hill district of Darjeeling has been in the throes of political uncertainty for several decades now. Mr. CR Rai, a retired administrator with rich experience who also led his political outfit after resigning from service, had access to some of the prime political actors and events at the height of the Gorkhaland agitation and brought his unique perspective on the issue in this unusually interesting book. Darjeeling: The Unhealed Wound discusses the people and circumstances responsible for creating political uncertainty. There are fascinating insights into the roles played by the local leaders and the main players as well as Dr BC Roy and Shri Vallabhai Patel in determining Darjeeling's post-independence position. What influence did Nepal have? How did Sikkim's annexation influence regional politics? These and other questions are discussed with great passion. Darjeeling enthusiasts will also be fascinated by the references to the many known and lesser-known figures who played a crucial role in the establishment of the original "Queen of the Hills"

Author : C.R. Rai
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darjeeling: The Unhealed Wound written by C.R. Rai and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautiful hill district of Darjeeling has been in the throes of political uncertainty for several decades now. Mr. CR Rai, a retired administrator with rich experience who also led his political outfit after resigning from service, had access to some of the prime political actors and events at the height of the Gorkhaland agitation and brought his unique perspective on the issue in this unusually interesting book. Darjeeling: The Unhealed Wound discusses the people and circumstances responsible for creating political uncertainty. There are fascinating insights into the roles played by the local leaders and the main players as well as Dr BC Roy and Shri Vallabhai Patel in determining Darjeeling’s post-independence position. What influence did Nepal have? How did Sikkim’s annexation influence regional politics? These and other questions are discussed with great passion. Darjeeling enthusiasts will also be fascinated by the references to the many known and lesser-known figures who played a crucial role in the establishment of the original “Queen of the Hills”

Author : Bharti Kirchner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312286422
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darjeeling written by Bharti Kirchner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-07-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sisters--Aloka, a successful journalist, and Sujata, a tea importer, who are in love with the same man--return to their childhood home in Darjeeling where they try to heal old wounds of bitterness and anger.

Author : Jeff Koehler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620405148
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darjeeling written by Jeff Koehler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darjeeling's tea bushes run across a mythical landscape steeped with the religious, the sacred, and the picturesque. Planted at high elevation in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, in an area of northern India bound by Nepal to the west, Bhutan to the east, and Sikkim to the north, the linear rows of brilliant green, waist-high shrubs that coat the steep slopes and valleys around this Victorian “hill town” produce only a fraction of the world's tea, and less than one percent of India's total. Yet the tea from that limited crop, with its characteristic bright, amber-colored brew and muscatel flavors - delicate and flowery, hinting of apricots and peaches - is generally considered the best in the world. This is the story of how Darjeeling tea began, was key to the largest tea industry on the globe under Imperial British rule, and came to produce the highest-quality tea leaves anywhere in the world. It is a story rich in history, intrigue and empire, full of adventurers and unlikely successes in culture, mythology and religions, ecology and terroir, all set with a backdrop of the looming Himalayas and drenching monsoons. The story is ripe with the imprint of the Raj as well as the contemporary clout of “voodoo farmers” getting world record prices for their fine teas - and all of it beginning with one of the most audacious acts of corporate smuggling in history. But it is also the story of how the industry spiraled into decline by the end of the twentieth century, and how this edenic spot in the high Himalayas seethes with union unrest and a violent independence struggle. It is also a front-line fight against the devastating effects of climate change and decades of harming farming practices, a fight that is being fought in some tea gardens - and, astonishingly, won - using radical methods. Jeff Koehler has written a fascinating chronicle of India and its most sought-after tea. Blending history, politics, and reportage together, along with a collection of recipes that tea-drinkers will love, Darjeeling is an indispensable volume for fans of micro-history and tea fanatics.

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Total Pages : 806 pages
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Total Pages : 780 pages
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Download or read book The Medical Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lenni A.
Publisher : Lenora Ashford
ISBN 13 : 138619297X
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book First Brood: Greenhouse written by Lenni A. and published by Lenora Ashford. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free of her guild, the former dreamhunter Darjeeling wants to leave everything behind her. But traces of her old life remain and they are hunting her down. What strange new powers will these hunters possess and will Auris have to protect the woman he once hunted? This is the second book in the First Brood Series. It is recommended you read book one, First Brood: Dreamhunter.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004404449
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of essays dedicated to the description and interpretation of Tibetan medical knowledge across different historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts.

Author : Anindita Dey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498512119
Total Pages : 209 pages
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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes, Byomkesh Bakshi, and Feluda written by Anindita Dey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes, Byomkesh Bakshi, and Feluda: Negotiating the Center and the Periphery presents a postcolonial reading of Conan Doyle’s canonical detective texts—Sherlock Holmes adventures, and some lesser known detective texts written by two Bengali (Indian) writers—Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (1899-1970), and Satyajit Ray (1921-1992). The book proposes that in a postcolonial reading situation, the representation of Holmes problematizes the act of reading and also the act and discourse of inquiry. The fact that the Holmes adventures contribute to the hegemonic culture of “Anglo/Eurocentrism” is seen as a reinforcement of racial superiority among the “colonized.” This book studies how literary texts function as a signifier of a particular national identity, and can indicate the cultural construct of a state. It contends that only those texts which cater to the standards of global hierarchy are considered canonical, and indigenous texts, however significant, remain as "Other" literature. The book highlights colonial and postcolonial discourse in the Bengali detective texts and examines, how far Holmes has been able to reinforce racial dominance over the Indian detectives Byomkesh Bakshi and Feluda.

Author : Otis Adelbert Kline
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1727 pages
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Download or read book Otis Adelbert Kline: Collected Works written by Otis Adelbert Kline and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 1727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and meticulously edited collection of Otis Adelbert Kline's greatest works includes: Introduction_x000D_ Writing the Fantastic Story_x000D_ The Venus Trilogy_x000D_ The Planet of Peril_x000D_ The Prince of Peril_x000D_ The Port of Peril_x000D_ The Mars Series_x000D_ The Swordsman of Mars_x000D_ The Outlaws of Mars_x000D_ The Call of the Savage Series_x000D_ Jan of the Jungle_x000D_ Jan in India_x000D_ Other Novels_x000D_ Maza of the Moon_x000D_ The Metal Monster_x000D_ Stranger from Smallness_x000D_ Short Stories_x000D_ The Malignant Entity_x000D_ The Thing That Walked in the Rain_x000D_ Spawn of the Comet_x000D_ The Man from the Moon_x000D_ A Vision of Venus_x000D_ The Revenge of the Robot_x000D_ Stolen Centuries_x000D_ Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946) was an adventure and science-fiction novelist of the pulp era. He is best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly became science-fiction classics. Because of these, and several jungle-adventure novels also, Kline is often compared to Edgar Rice Burroughs.