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The Bagdogra-Darjeeling road begins in hot steamy flatland, flanked by bamboo thickets and banana fronds, but soon it rises and corkscrews among the hills. The vegetation changes: silver fir, rhododendron, maple, oak. From the window of my hired van I saw tea plantations with weathered placards bearing names like Longview and Margaret’s Hope. Women with baskets plucked tea shrubs and called to each other.
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Notes
Talbot Mundy, Om: The Secret of Ahbor Valley (New York: Avon Books, 1967), 25. This novel first appeared in 1924.
Rumer Godden, Bengal Journey: A Story of the Part Played hy Women in the Province, 1939–1945 (Calcutta: Longmans, Green & Co., 1945), 103–04.
Arthur Jules Dash, Bengal District Gazetteers: Darjeeling (Alipore: Bengal Government Press, 1947), 57.
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Ibid., 116, 140.
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Pinault, D. (2001). Shia Ritual in a Sunni Setting: Muharram Observances in the Hill Station of Darjeeling, West Bengal. In: Horse of Karbala. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04765-6_5
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