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Vol-II, No. 1 | May 2011
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Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. II, No. 1 (May 2011)
Darjeeling and the Indian East
ISSN: 0976-1861
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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. II, No. 1 (May 2011)
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DARJEELING AND THE INDIAN EAST
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Editorial Darjeeling and the Indian East Babu Joseph & Kishan Harijan | v |
Role of Tourism in Human Resource Development in Darjeeling Hills Mir Abdul Sofique | 1 |
The Emergence of Darjeeling Hills as a Tourist Destination Babu Joseph | 15 |
Economic Development in Darjeeling Hills: Quest for Alternatives Anjan Chakrabarti | 36 |
Politics of 'Ethnic Enclaves' and Dilemmas of Travel-Tourism: Experiential Readings from Mizoram Anup Shekhar Chakraborty | 47 |
Rural Development through Rural Tourism Rohin D Souza | 54 |
Role of Tea Plantation Industry in Human Resource Devlopment in Darjeeling Hills Kishan Harijan | 60 |
Sport, Culture, Nationalism: Football in Colonial Calcutta, 1877-1934 Kausik Bandyopadhyay | 69 |
1857 and Assam & 1857 Uprising and the role of North East India Partha Sen | 88 |
1857 In Eastern India: A Lacuna in Historiography Roshani Rai | 94 |
1857 Phenomenon: A National Uprising or a Religious War? Karingamavil Jose | 99 |
Book Reviews Jahar Sen, Darjeeling: A Favoured Retreat By Kishan Harijan | 105 |
Lakshmi Subramanian, History of India, 1707-1857 By Kishan Harijan | 108 |
Dr. Suresh Chand & Savita Nigam, Freedom, Turning point of First war of 1857: India's Independence By Jumit Lepcha and Pawan Prasad | 110 |
Editorial
Editorial
Darjeeling and the Indian East
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.v-vii
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Editorial
Articles
Role of Tourism in Human Resource Development in Darjeeling Hills
Mir Abdul Sofique
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.1-14
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Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. II, No.1 (May 2011)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.1-14 | Page: 01-14,
Role of Tourism in Human Resource Development in Darjeeling Hills | Section: Articles
Role of Tourism in Human Resource Development in Darjeeling Hills
Mir Abdul Sofique is presently working as a Reader in Tourism, in the Department of Tourism Management, University of Burdwan, West Bengal. He has presented research articles in national & international conferences in different parts of the Country & abroad. He is associated with different travel agencies & tour operators in the country as advisory board member. He has taught tourism related subjects in more than 10 Universities around the country.
Abstract
Sofique looks at the problems and prospects of Tourism Industry with its emergent possibilities and vast untapped resources with a critical perspective and offers ample suggestions for both the public and private sector involvements to boost its present status. Positioning the role of tourism for Darjeeling in particular, he makes suggestions and offers perspectives to enhance the scope of tourism in the resource rich region and location of Darjeeling.
Keywords: Human Resource, Darjeeling, Tourism, Organisation
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The Emergence of Darjeeling Hills as a Tourist Destination
Babu Joseph
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.15-35
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ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.15-35 | Page: 15-35,
The Emergence of Darjeeling as a Tourist Destination | Section: Articles
The Emergence of Darjeeling as a Tourist Destination
Babu Joseph is the Head of the Department of History and Tourism in Salesian College Sonada, and presently he is pursuing his Doctoral Studies in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Services Management, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. The research project he is working on is entitled, “The Emergence of Darjeeling Hills as a Tourist Destination”.
Abstract
Joseph makes an overview of the development of Darjeeling as a hill station and traces its history with special reference to the potential for tourism in the district. Besides highlighting the transitions the hill district has undergone he also draws attention to the new tropes of tourism.
Keywords: Darjeeling, Gorkha, Sagauli, Tourism Destination
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Economic Development in Darjeeling Hills: Quest for Alternatives
Anjan Chakrabarti
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.36-46
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Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. II, No.1 (May 2011)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.36-46 | Page: 36-46,
Economic Development in Darjeeling Hills: Quest for Alternatives | Section: Articles
Economic Development in Darjeeling Hills: Quest for Alternatives
Anjan Chakrabarti is currently an Assistant Professor and Head in Department of Economics in St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling. In and through his writings, Chakrabarti has provided valuable insights and astute commentary on the economic and developmental issues of North East and rural Bengal. His research interests include development economics, mountain economy, agrarian relations and policy research. He has published research papers and articles in various national/international journals and magazines of repute. His book is entitled Economic Development and Employment in Sikkim (Authors Press, New Delhi, 2009).
Abstract
Chakrabarti attempts to pin down the prospects and problems of Darjeeling with its dependence on tourism and tea industry taking on the issue from a global as well as local perspective. After offering his analysis of the prevailing situation, he also proposes two alternative models for reviving the local economy as to empower the people for taking greater advantage of its tea, farming and tourism potential.
Keywords:Culture, Marginalisation, Population, Rural Grower
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Politics of 'Ethnic Enclaves' and Dilemmas of Travel-Tourism: Experiential Readings from Mizoram
Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.47-53
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Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. II, No.1 (May 2011)
ISSN: 0976-1861 |DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.47-53 | Page: 47-53,
Politics of 'Ethnic Enclaves' and Dilemmas of Travel-Tourism: Experiential Readings from Mizoram | Section: Articles
Politics of 'Ethnic Enclaves' and Dilemmas of Travel-Tourism: Experiential Readings from Mizoram
Anup Shekhar Chakraborty is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling. He has been researching on Identity Politics in the North Eastern state of Mizoram. He was awarded the ‘India Social Science Research Award 2009’ by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and India Development Foundation for his research work on ‘Politics of Social ‘Exclusions’ and ‘Inclusions’ in Mizoram’.
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Chakraborty attempts an analysis of the emergence of Mizo state and land and people with unique characteristics as offering the rich potential for promoting tourism. The resource rich state has potential for income generation and alternative mode of development taking into consideration the indigenous history of hospitality and welcome accorded to people.
Keywords: Colonial, Experiment, Zo/Mizo, Politics, Ethnicity
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Rural Development through Rural Tourism
Rohin D Souza
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.54-59
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Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. II, No.1 (May 2011)
ISSN: 0976-1861 |DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.54-59 | Page: 54-59,
Rural Development Through Rural Tourism | Section: Articles
Rural Development Through Rural Tourism
Rohin D Souza, resident of Darjeeling, has been working with Darjeeling Prerna (NGO) as Programme Manager since 1996. His work profile includes community groups strengthening; Organic farming promotion and marketing; Promotion of Participatory Planning; Community based tourism promotion; Organizing training programmes on ecology, conservation, permaculture and organic farming. He also works as Organic inspector for Institute of Marketecology (IMO Control Private Ltd), Bangalore, since 2007.
Abstract
D’Souza makes an ardent plea for a shift from mass tourism which is plaguing Darjeeling to eco-tourism which offers sustainable developmental goals for the benefit of the people whose progress is the crux of the issues related to the overall developmental hazards of the region coming in the way of genuine growth and progress.
Keywords: Infrastructure, Himalayas, Rural Tourism
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Role of Tea Plantation Industry in Human Resource Devlopment in Darjeeling Hills
Kishan Harijan
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.60-68
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Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. II, No.1 (May 2011)
ISSN: 0976-1861 |DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.60-68 | Page: 60-68,
Role of Tea Plantation Industry in Human Resource Development in Darjeeling Hills | Section: Articles
Role of Tea Plantation Industry in Human Resource Development in Darjeeling Hills
Kishan Harijan is the Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Salesian College, Sonada. He has published articles in Darjeeling Times and reviewed books for Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. His area of research interest is Trade and Commerce in Darjeeling.
Abstract
Harijan takes a historical look at the emergence of tea industry in Darjeeling district and analyzes its current problems with a view to retaining the erstwhile glory of Darjeeling tea. Being a labour intensive industry, he proposes that its potential for human resource development is rich, especially by enabling the upcoming generation of tea garden population in moving on and even in sharing in the ownership of the gardens.
Keywords: Plantation, Labourers, Tea Brokers, Degradation
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Sport, Culture, Nationalism: Football in Colonial Calcutta, 1877-1934
Kausik Bandyopadhyay
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.69-87
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Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. II, No.1 (May 2011)
ISSN: 0976-1861 |DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.69-87 | Page: 69-87,
Sports, Culture, Nationalism: Football in Colonial Calcutta, 1877-1934 | Section: Articles
Sports, Culture, Nationalism: Football in Colonial Calcutta, 1877-1934
Kausik Bandyopadhyay, an Associate Editor of Soccer and Society (London: Routledge), teaches History at West Bengal State University, Barasat. A former Fellow of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, he previously taught at the Department of History, University of North Bengal. He is a Fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne. Author and editor of several books on the history of sports and popular culture in South Asia, he has also published a number of articles in national and international journals.
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The article of Bandyopadhyay attempts to capture the nationalist fervour of the late 19th and early 20th centuries Calcutta in and through the arena of sports and more specifically football. The fact that football gave went to the inadequacies that a people felt at being colonized and offered room for self-expression, even vicariously, by creating an alternative space of potential mastery over the game and defeat of the masters at their own game is representative of the political and economic agenda of many a colonised nation and their aspirations to date.
Keywords: Culture, Nationalism, Sport, Football
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1857 and Assam & 1857 Uprising and the role of North East India
Partha Sen
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.88-93
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1857 and Assam & 1857 Uprising and the Role of North East India | Section: Articles
1857 and Assam & 1857 Uprising and the Role of North East India
Partha Sen is a former head of the department of History, Islampur College. He is the editor of the fortnightly Suryapur vartha since November 1983 dealing with socio-economic problems of Tribals of North Bengal and also published other articles on related issues of rural communities.
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Sen, in this piece, looks at the happenings revolving around 1857 in North East India and comes to the conclusion that the impact of the resistance movement against the imperial forces manifested itself in sizeable and definitive measures also in the north east with special reference to Assam and North Bengal.
Keywords: Maniram Dewan, 1857 Mutiny, Assam, North East
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1857 In Eastern India: A Lacuna in Historiography
Roshani Rai
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.94-98
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Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. II, No.1 (May 2011)
ISSN: 0976-1861 |DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.94-98 | Page: 94-98,
1857 in Eastern India: A Lacuna in Historiography | Section: Articles
1857 in Eastern India: A Lacuna in Historiography
Roshani Rai is presently the Assistant Professor in the Department of History University of Tripura. She was formerly part-time lecturer in the Department of History, Loreto
(Southfield) College, Darjeeling.
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Rai attempts to recount some major incidents in the eastern part of India associated with the rebellion of 1857 as to claim that the region unlike earlier claims was not all that complacent nor slumbering during the major events of the year, but rather, did show different levels of participation by way of igniting the discontent that prevailed for various reasons in these parts.
Keywords: Revolt, Sepoys, North Bengal, Chittagong Mutiny
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1857 Phenomenon: A National Uprising or a Religious War?
Karingamavil Jose
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.99-104
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ISSN: 0976-1861 |DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.99-104 | Page: 99-104,
1857 Phenomenon: A National Uprising or a Religious War? | Section: Articles
1857 Phenomenon: A National Uprising or a Religious War?
Karingamavil Jose is presently the Head of the Department of history and Vice Principal of St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling. He has completed his Doctoral Research on ‘British Forest
Policy in Darjeeling: 1864-1947’ from University of Madras.
Abstract
Jose in his lucid yet critical style takes on the prevalent notions on 1857 for a rethink. He is equally critical of the western/European interpretation of the event as well as that of the nationalist schools attempts at glorifying the event. These critical explorative inroads into the much acclaimed historical legacy of 1857 for a modern nation stand to gain from especially the renewed interests in historiography.
Keywords: Nationalism, Religion, Warfare, Fundamentalism
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Book Reviews
Jahar Sen, Darjeeling: A Favoured Retreat
Kishan Harijan
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.105-107
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Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. II, No.1 (May 2011)
ISSN: 0976-1861 |DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.105-107 | Page: 105-107,
Darjeeling: A Favoured Retreat | Section: Book Review
Jahar Sen, Darjeeling: A Favoured Retreat, (New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, 1989), 120, ISBN 81-85182-15-9, ₹120.
Kishan Harijan is the Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Salesian College, Sonada. He has published articles in Darjeeling Times and reviewed books for Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. His area of research interest is Trade and Commerce in Darjeeling.
The author presents a multi-dimensional approach to Darjeeling starting from its historical background, with its strategic considerations both for defence and trans-Himalayan trade and moving onto the development of Nepali language and literature. In this experiment, the author has extensively utilized the archival sources and the records preserved in the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, Darjeeling.
The Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-16) drew the British directly into the Himalayas. The British relation with Sikkim also had its origin in the Anglo-Nepalese War. Due to its strategic location, the British sought the assistance of Sikkim during the war. By the treaty of Titalya signed in 1817, the British gained many advantages. The author also narrates the process of the development of Darjeeling, since its origin in 1835. Further, the author presents the most fascinating role of Darjeeling as an ‘Entrepot of Trade’. [Entrepot Trade is the trade at one centre in the goods of other countries. An entrepot is a trading post where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties, often at a profit.] Many reports and records speak about the trade between Darjeeling and Tibet. It, further, expressed hope that Darjeeling was the gateway through which commerce and culture of the West could reach Central Asia.
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Lakshmi Subramanian, History of India, 1707-1857
Kishan Harijan
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.108-109
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Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. II, No.1 (May 2011)
ISSN: 0976-1861 |DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.108-109 | Page: 108-109,
History of India, 1707-1857 | Section: Book Review
Lakshmi Subramanian, History of India, 1707-1857, (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan Limited, 2010), 252, ISBN 978-81250-4039-4, ₹ 225.
Kishan Harijan is the Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Salesian College, Sonada. He has published articles in Darjeeling Times and reviewed books for Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. His area of research interest is Trade and Commerce in Darjeeling.
The period 1707-1857 was full of dramatic events. In this book, the author tries to justify the meaning of transition implied in ‘Medieval’ to ‘Modern’ and remarks this period as the ‘Century of Change’. The book interprets the grand events like the death of Aurangzeb, the battle of Plassey and the Great Revolt of 1857. The Mughal Empire was the largest centralized state. The reality of Mughal decline made a beginning with the invasion of Nadir Shah in 1739. The passing away of the Mughal Empire and its replacement by the Company was a long-drawn process with significant consequences for Indian society and polity. Further, after the battle of Plassey (1757), the English East India Company took the first major step in building the Indian Empire. It was the period of transition from a trading body to a sovereign authority.
The book also examines the processes of social and political changes that took place in eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century. The author explains the grounds for colonial dominance as well as resistance to it. The author discusses vividly the theme - Consolidation and Governance: The Apparatus of the Company Raj. The book gives a vivid picture of colonial initiatives in education, legislation and social and religious reforms.
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Suresh Chand & Savita Nigam, Freedom, Turning Point of First War of 1857: India’s Independence
Jumit Lepcha & Pawan Prasad
DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.110-111
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Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. II, No.1 (May 2011)
ISSN: 0976-1861 |DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.02.2011.110-111 | Page: 110-111,
Freedom, Turning Point of First War of 1857: India’s Independence | Section: Book Review
Dr. Suresh Chand & Savita Nigam, Freedom, Turning Point of First War of 1857: India’s Independence, (Delhi: Universal Voice, 2007), 175, ISBN 978-81-90401, Rs. 350.
Jumit Lepcha , is presently a Lecturer, in the Department of History, Salesian College, Sonada.
Pawan Prasad is presently heading the department of Commerce, Salesian College, Siliguri Campus and interested in the area of socio-economic life of forest dependents in Duars region.
This book is about India’s First Freedom Struggle (Revolt of 1857) and it also assesses the status of society in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The revolt of 1857, better known as the sepoy mutiny has a very significant place in the history of India. Hundreds of books and articles have been written and published on this very topic since the attainment of independence in 1947. This book is another contribution to this series. Though it would seem that every aspect of the great upheaval of 1857 has already been discussed by earlier writers, historians and scholars, Suresh Chand and Savita Nigam have tried their best to present us new aspects of the Revolt of 1857.
The first chapter is about Decline of Mughal Empire. The chief reason for the downfall is identified as the financial crisis of the Mughals. It was the direct outcome of the wars of succession, rebellions and luxurious style of living which affected in the steady depletion of the economic resources leading to financial bankruptcy. The second chapter about Status of Society in Eighteenth Century explains how Zamindari system worked in those days by showing how a few large Zamindars controlled half of the total landed property of Bengal. People were divided into various castes and Dalits (untouchable castes) were not allowed to let their shadow fall upon a non-Dalit caste member.
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