03776nam 22007215 450 991025413680332120230327165950.03-319-29707-410.1007/978-3-319-29707-1(CKB)3710000000649166(EBL)4509027(SSID)ssj0001665799(PQKBManifestationID)16454450(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001665799(PQKBWorkID)15000801(PQKB)10585989(DE-He213)978-3-319-29707-1(MiAaPQ)EBC4509027(PPN)193444895(EXLCZ)99371000000064916620160418d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Himalayan Border Region Trade, Identity and Mobility in Kumaon, India /by Christoph Bergmann1st ed. 2016.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2016.1 online resource (205 p.)Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,1879-7180Description based upon print version of record.3-319-29705-8 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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 as well as opportunities for local mountain communities. Based on an analytical framework that is grounded in and contributes to recent advances in the field of border studies, the author explores how the Bhotiyas have used their agency to develop a flourishing trans-Himalayan trade under British colonial influence; to assert an identity and win legal recognition as a tribal community in the political setup of independent India; and to innovate their pastoral mobility in the context of ongoing state and market reforms. By examining the Bhotiyas’ trade, identity and mobility this book shows how and why the Himalayan border region has evolved as an agentive site of political action for a variety of different actors.Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,1879-7180Physical geographyBusinessCommercePolitical scienceAnthropologyWorld Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions)https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J19000Tradehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/527010Political Sciencehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911000Anthropologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X12000Physical geography.Business.Commerce.Political science.Anthropology.World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions).Trade.Political Science.Anthropology.306.0954Bergmann Christophauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1063874MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910254136803321The Himalayan Border Region2535129UNINA