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Unbecoming Citizens: Culture, Nationhood, and The Flight of Refugees From Bhutan

By: Hutt, Michael Material type: Text

TextSeries: (Oxford India paperbacks)Publication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xix, 308 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780195670608Subject(s): Refugees | Politics and government | Nepali peopleDDC classification: 325.25498

Contents:

Context: lands on a rim -- Bhutan and the Bhutanese -- Authenticity and historical truth -- Unbecoming citizens -- Matters of history -- The history of Umbho -- Nepali migration to Bhutan: the historical context -- 'Since the time of the Shabdrung' -- 'Priests and patrons' -- 'To protect the land of Dharmadeva' -- Southern Bhutan in early British accounts -- Early encounters -- 'A narrow slip of land' -- Bhutan and the Younghusband mission -- 'First sightings' -- The legend of Garjaman Gurung -- Ponlops and thekadars -- D.B. Gurung's memoir -- Using the legend -- Questions of historicity -- The settlement and administration of the south -- A chronology of Nepali settlement -- The ethnic boundary -- The administration of southern Bhutan -- The Paro Ponlop and the Dorjes -- The Mandals -- Land ownership and registration -- The payment of taxes -- Revenue from below -- The contribution of labour -- The changing bases of subjecthood -- Calling the raiyats back home -- The case of Akhal Singh -- Lhotshampa culture -- Bhutanese Nepaliness -- Caste and ethnicity -- Assumed characteristics -- Ascribed characteristics -- The absence of Nepali literature -- Of pandits and pathshalas -- The first activists -- 'Jai Gorkha!' -- The death of Masur Chetri -- The Bhutan State Congress -- Coming closer to the King -- Coming down from Tongsa -- Political representation -- The granting of citizenship -- Opening the schools -- Building the roads -- Moving east -- A sense of belonging -- The conditions for belonging.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	325.25498 HUT/U (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Available		P00256
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	325.25498 HUT/U (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-2	Checked out	22/10/2021	P03240
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	325.25498 HUT/U (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-3	Available		051934
AC Sinha Collection	Central Library, Sikkim University AC Sinha Collection	325.25498 HUT/U (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-4	Available		GB2848
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	325.25498 HUT/U (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-5	Available		051935
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	325.25498 HUT/U (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-6	Available		051936

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Context: lands on a rim --
Bhutan and the Bhutanese --
Authenticity and historical truth --
Unbecoming citizens --
Matters of history --
The history of Umbho --
Nepali migration to Bhutan: the historical context --
'Since the time of the Shabdrung' --
'Priests and patrons' --
'To protect the land of Dharmadeva' --
Southern Bhutan in early British accounts --
Early encounters --
'A narrow slip of land' --
Bhutan and the Younghusband mission --
'First sightings' --
The legend of Garjaman Gurung --
Ponlops and thekadars --
D.B. Gurung's memoir --
Using the legend --
Questions of historicity --
The settlement and administration of the south --
A chronology of Nepali settlement --
The ethnic boundary --
The administration of southern Bhutan --
The Paro Ponlop and the Dorjes --
The Mandals --
Land ownership and registration --
The payment of taxes --
Revenue from below --
The contribution of labour --
The changing bases of subjecthood --
Calling the raiyats back home --
The case of Akhal Singh --
Lhotshampa culture --
Bhutanese Nepaliness --
Caste and ethnicity --
Assumed characteristics --
Ascribed characteristics --
The absence of Nepali literature --
Of pandits and pathshalas --
The first activists --
'Jai Gorkha!' --
The death of Masur Chetri --
The Bhutan State Congress --
Coming closer to the King --
Coming down from Tongsa --
Political representation --
The granting of citizenship --
Opening the schools --
Building the roads --
Moving east --
A sense of belonging --
The conditions for belonging.

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