Resistance from the Margins: ‘Untouchable’ Women’s Voices vis-à-vis the Gorkha Identity and the Gorkhaland Movement

What is it about?

This paper is a critical examination of the exclusionary nature of the Gorkha ethno-nationalism, as professed by the Gorkhaland movement. By bringing to the fore alternative voices and perspectives, particularly those of women who come from the margins of caste society in the Darjeeling Hills, a layered and nuanced understanding of the history of the movement, the region and its people is sought to be presented and analysed.

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