Jayeeta Sharma

University of Toronto, History, Faculty Member

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I am a historian and food studies scholar with a particular focus on community-engaged and food justice research and pedagogies, and empire/post-colonial histories of labour and circulation.

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University of Madras

American University

Stockholm University

University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Erhan Akarçay

Anadolu University

Jill S. Schneiderman

Vassar College

IEHCA European Institute For Food History and Cultures

Université de Tours

Ugyan Choedup

The Pennsylvania State University

Gokul K.S

Amity University, Noida

Neprican Times

Pokhara University

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Empire's Garden (E-book)

Empire's Garden (E-book), 2011

Assam and the Making of India

Kalimpong as a Transcultural Missionary Contact Zone

Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands Kalimpong as a “Contact Zone” Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality, 2017

This article explores Kalimpong as a transformative mountain space for mixed-race children, a loc... more This article explores Kalimpong as a transformative mountain space for mixed-race children, a locality closely associated with a range of imperial missionary activity, notably through the personality and career of its famous adoptive citizen, the Rev. John Anderson Graham, the founder of the St Andrew’s Colonial Homes, now known as Graham’s Homes. From the 1870s, the Foreign Mission of the Church of Scotland undertook an array of activities directed at the diverse populations of the hill-station towns of Kalimpong and Darjeeling on the mountainous edges of British India and the regions of Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, and Tibet. The chapter examines how Scottish Presbyterian associational networks around print, religion, education, social reform, and self-help enterprises helped develop Kalimpong’s role as a transcultural and transnational hub that functioned as a key contact zone in the Eastern Himalayan region.

EDITORIAL NOTE Themed Section: Global Encounters, Local Places: Connected Histories of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and the Himalayas

Darjeeling and Kalimpong, British imperial towns in the eastern Himalayan borderlands at the junc... more Darjeeling and Kalimpong, British imperial towns in the eastern Himalayan borderlands at the juncture of Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Sikkim, and Tibet, played a vital yet under-studied role as transcultural hubs of a hybrid modernity. This themed section explores “connected histories,” paying particular attention to these Himalayan towns as a modern crossroads for empires, ethnicities, religions, and cultural and economic mobilities. It offers alternative approaches that connect and intersect the history of local places and spaces with broader narratives of global history. Contributors draw upon a range of perspectives to frame their historical explorations of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and the eastern Himalayas in terms of local, regional, and global circulation, transnational connections, and transcultural encounters.

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