https://sikkimproject.org/the-many-darjeelings-colonial-legacy-and-postcolonial-existence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-many-darjeelings-colonial-legacy-and-postcolonial-existence The Land and Its People Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:57:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://sikkimproject.org/the-many-darjeelings-colonial-legacy-and-postcolonial-existence/#comment-463 Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:57:01 +0000 https://sikkimproject.org/?p=7475#comment-463 This is a tremendously engaging article offering a fresh perspective on post-colonial existence that continues to draw heavily from the colonial legacy, rooted in labour and the indignity of the natives. It was incredibly fascinating to see how the location/architecture of specific places within a colonised space can consolidate the 'racial logic' of the colonists openly intending a separation of the 'European from the natives,' with absolutely no objective towards integration.
The post-colonial collective trauma is evident in the way we fall short time and again in bringing into fruition our demands for identity and space coerced and manipulated by a more prominent post-colonial force - an echo of the past colonial experience in the modern Darjeeling hill population's psyche.
A big thank you to Diksha Tamang and Rahul Ganguly for this insightful article.

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