The Oxford Handbook of the Himalayas
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 October 2026
- ISBN 9780190685041
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 249x183x43 mm
- Weight 880 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
The Himalayas are not just mountains. They are also not just places for mountaineering, exploring, or extracting commodities. The Himalayan region is dynamic. Spanning eight contemporary nation states - from Afghanistan to Myanmar, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan - the region is home to great diversity of people, languages, political formations, and ecosystems.
The Oxford Handbook of the Himalayas provides an overview of the region, including how it has been studied, and how Himalayan communities have developed, responded to challenges, and spread throughout the mountains and valleys of the region and around the world.
Long description:
The Himalayas are not just mountains. They are also not just places for mountaineering, exploring, or extracting commodities. The Himalayan region is dynamic. Spanning eight contemporary nation states - from Afghanistan to Myanmar, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan - the region is home to great diversity of people, languages, political formations, and ecosystems.
It is also a region that is frequently imagined through siloed disciplinary perspectives, for its beautiful mountain vistas and geography, or its anthropological complexity. These perspectives developed during European colonial expansion in the region which has had long lasting repercussions for the making of borders and nation states as well as academic disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the Himalayas provides an overview of the many ways that the Himalayas as a region are conceptualized and studied from the perspective of academics across multiple fields, including anthropology, history, geography, and religious studies, and from the people of the Himalayas. It engages with crucial themes for understanding this region in both local and global contexts, including through the lenses of relationships between Himalayan communities and their environments, political formations, international relations, race, ethnicity, language, gender, religion, economics, and infrastructures.
This Handbook refuses the limitations of colonially-imposed boundaries, and instead emphasizes the themes of diversity, change, and connectedness to understand how the study of the Himalayas has developed, and how it continues to develop in conversation with the communities of the region. The Handbook is divided into five sections that provide an overview of the history of global engagements with the Himalayas. The first section provides an overview of the region. The second looks at colonial engagements and statemaking. The third examines how Himalayan worldviews have been represented in scholarship, and how these representations are interpreted with and engaged by local communities. The fourth critically examines local identities. The fifth examines contemporary issues that have developed from these earlier engagements and the growth of Himalayan diasporic communities around the world.
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Table of Contents:
SECTION 1. Introduction
Introduction: Understanding and Engaging the Himalayas- Diversity, Complexity, and Community
Geological Evolution of the Himalaya
Decolonizing "Tibetan" and "Himalayan" Studies: Empire, Ethnicity, and Rethinking Sovereignty
SECTION 2. Histories of Engagement: The Colonial and Postcolonial Making of Himalayan Studies
Sino-Tibetan Relations and the Specter of Empire in the Himalayas
The Himalayas in Global Empire
Geopolitics and State Building in the Himalaya, 1814-Present
Mountaineering in the Himalayas
The Himalayas in the World Wars: Gurkha Recruitment and Anglo-Nepalese Diplomatic Transactions
Glaciers of the Himalayas: A History of Affective Engagement with a Mountain Environment
SECTION 3. Histories of the Himalayas: Himalayan Worldviews
Sketching the Folk Narratives of the Lepcha Landscape: Folklore as Environmental History in the Himalayas
Hinduism in the Himalaya: Tantra, Embodiment, and the Goddess
Tendrel, Connections Across the Mountains: Mobility, Relationships, and Differences in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhism
Making of a Region: Islam, Tibet, and the Himalayas
Christianity in Nepal and the Himalayas
SECTION 4. Histories of Communities: Local and Transregional Connections
The People of the (Kathmandu) Valley: Land, Heritage, and Belonging Among the Newars of Swaniga/Nepal Mandala
Buddhist Kingdoms and States in the Himalayas: Histories and Their Legacies in the Mon Region (Mon yul)
Historicizing the House of Gorkha: Genealogy, Family Feuds, and Network Building in the Himalayas
SECTION 5. The Himalayas in Motion: The Contemporary Himalayas
Everyday Life in the Himalayas
Ethnicity and Belonging in Contemporary Himalaya
Language Policy, Education, and State Making in Nepal
Cultural Belonging and the Question of Citizenship in Northeastern Borderlands
Gender Equality in the Contemporary Himalayas: Restoring Ordination Status and Remodeling Advanced Education for Buddhist Women
Road, Rail, and Air: Infrastructures of Promise in the Himalayas
Scripting News, Editing Lyrics, Clearing Data: An Ethnography of Censorship, Surveillance, and Nationalizing the Eastern Himalayas in Northeast India
Tourism, Tibetan-ness, and Entrepreneurship in China's Himalayan Borderlands
COVID-19 and the Challenges of Language Use in Contemporary Bhutan
An Altar for the Anthropocene: Buddhist Material Culture and Climate Change in the Changing Himalayas
Global Nepali and Himalayan Community: Migration, Identities, and Diasporas
