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Yudru Tsomu, The Rise of Gonpo Namgyel in Kham: The Blind Warrior of Nyarong Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014. 363 pages. Hardcover, $126.00; eBook $119.50. ISBN: 9780739177921 (hardcover); 9780739177938 (eBook). Early-nineteenth-century [...]

Berenice Guyot-Rechard, Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 348 pages, 20 black and white illustrations, 6 maps. Hardcover, $99.00. ISBN: 9781107176799. While a [...]

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On Crossing is a collaborative work on paper created by two artists who use ritualistic mark making and the exploration of space with fervour in their own studio practices. Jodi [...]

Victor Romao's drawings didn't scare me at first, but then I thought myself very foolish not to be scared. Riding. I was riding for sheer joy, for the speed. I [...]

body bed blossoms rail rust ruin redemption sex barbed-wire text What strikes me about Michele's work is her sense of place. But more to the point the place in Michele's [...]

Abstract: The current study surveyed primary care physicians to gather information on their testing practices for Chlamydia trachomatis among 15- to 24-year-old young women and to identify factors associated with [...]

For this inaugural issue of the Black and White edition of the Windsor Review, I had thought to weave together something about Black and White's history and cultural weight, but [...]

Marietta Kind, The Bon Landscape of Dolpo: Pilgrimages, Monasteries, Biographies and the Emergence of Bon Berlin: Peter Lang, 2012. 568 pages. Illustrations, textual reproduction, 2 maps. Hardback, 63.00 £/US$97.95. ISBN [...]

In this article I draw on Robb"s insights ("The Colonial State and Constructions of Indian Identity" Modern Asian Studies, 1997), in discussing how during the British period (1888 to 1918), Indian structures were introduced and established in Sikkim closely following models used in British India. In areas such as law and justice, health, education, taxation and communication systems, Sikkim was structurally aligned with India. In contrast, however, the colonial era processes of national identity construction in Sikkim entirely excluded identification with an Indian Nation. Under the British, Sikkimese identity was constructed as a Tibetan Buddhist state comprising "indigenous" Bhutia-Lepcha citizens. That identity excluded immigrants whose origins were in the Gurkha kingdom. As a result of the social processes that imagined Sikkim as an (independent) Buddhist Nation, none of the ethnic communities in Sikkim identified themselves as "Indian", leaving Sikkim structurally equipped but socially unprepared for membership of an Indian Nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]