The Peoples of Sikkim Article
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Sikkim, Mayel Lyang to the indigenous Lepchas since pre-history, and Beyul Demajong to the Bhutias who consolidated the land into a kingdom in the mid-seventeenth-century, carries a sense of “paradise” and “hidden” in these original names. At a superficial level, both these evocations — paradise…
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We often hear our grandparents say, ‘hami tah jungle ko baato hirdai ka-ka pugthyo’ (we used to walk through forest areas to reach places), implying that they did not have pakka (concrete) roads at the time. In contemporary times, these ‘old’ forest trails, pivotal in mapping ‘local’ routes, have…
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इस वीडियो में राम प्रसाद वासुदेव एक कथाकार के रूप में अपने जीवन और समुदाय के बारे में बात करते हैं।
This content has been created as part of a project commissioned by the Directorate of Culture and Archaeology, Government of Chhattisgarh, to document the cultural and natural heritage of the…
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This module explores the Cambridge South Asian Archive, which was set up in Cambridge in association with the South Asian Studies programme in 1964. This archive houses an extensive collection of private papers, archival photos, videos and oral history recordings, making it indispensable…
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