Flight and Adaptation

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Forced to leave their country after it was invaded by China in 1959, about a hundred thusand Tibetans followed His Holiness the Dalai Lama into exile in India. Since then Tibetan civilization as a whole has been the subject of many studies. And studies on Tibetan refugees as socio-anthropological subject are many, but most of the earlier scholars have confined their studies on the Tibetans living in the settlements below the northern belt of the Indian sub-continent, which is physically, culturally, linguistically and climatically completely different from what is obtained in Tibet. In this book the author makes an in-depth study of the adaptation process of the Tibetan refugees who started their exile life on the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya, which is physically, culturally, climatically and linguistically, to a large extent, similar to what exists in Tibet, and shows that the process of rehabilitation and adaptation of Tibetan refugees in these areas has been less problematic than those in other parts of India. Very well researched and divided into eight well defined chapters, this book should be of immense help to the students of socio-anthropology and Tibetology.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tanka B. Subba

Dr. Tanka B. Subba was born on 9 May 1957 in Kalimpong. He graduated from Kalimpong College and was awarded a Gold Medal for securing First Class Ist in MA. in 1980, and received his Ph.D. in 1986 for Caste, Class and Agrarian Relations in the Nepalese Society of Darjeeling and Sikkim. He is currently a Lecturer in Sociology at the Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North bengal. Dr. Tanka Subba is the authr of two other books, The Quiet Hills and Dynamics of a Hill Society, and is also a member of the Expert Panel of Review Projector (India), coimbatore.

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Title
Flight and Adaptation
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8185102775
Length
xvi+169p., Tables; Bibliography; 22cm.
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#Tibet