The Himalayan Border Region: Trade, Identity and Mobility in Kumaon, India

by Christoph Bergmann

Book Overview

Drawing from extensive archival work and long-term ethnographic research, this book focuses on the so-called Bhotiyas, former trans-Himalayan traders and a Scheduled Tribe of India who reside in several high valleys of the Kumaon Himalaya. The area is located in the border triangle between India, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR, People's Republic of China), and Nepal, where contestations over political boundaries have created multiple challenges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319806319
• ISBN13: 9783319806310
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"