The Himalayan Border Region Trade, Identity and Mobility in Kumaon, India /

• Main Author: Bergmann, Christoph (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
• Subjects: Geography.; Trade.; Business.; Commerce.; Political science.; Physical geography.; Anthropology.; World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions).; Political Science.

Drawing from extensive archival work and long-term ethnographic research, this book focuses on the so-called Bhotiyas, former trans-Himalayan traders and a Scheduled Tribe of India who reside in several high valleys of the Kumaon Himalaya. The area is located in the border triangle between India, th...