Kolkata: Darjeeling has a tensile factor because it allows land losers from various ethnic groups of tribes to settle there before the East Indian company controls the area and gradually turns it into ‘Queen Station Hill’.
The company was involved in the economic and political affairs of the East Himalayan region which gradually opened as a strategic border to move towards Tibet, Central Asia and possibly to China with tea planted in the hills, triggering movement.
This led to the emergence of Darjeeling, said Semaranan Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, who delivered lectures on Friday.
There was time when the place was no more than “Old Gorkha Station from Dorjeling” as mentioned in 1829 Notes captain Lloyd and Grant, two East Indian company officers, who have been sent there to assess the situation so much.
Nepal was defeated and announced to Sikkim in 1814, the historian said.
In 1865, England beat Bhutan and even Kalimpong and Dooar added to Darjeeling.
“The identity of their ethnic tribes melts and they become part of a large Nepalese community.
The literate population is increasing and the Nepalese elite arises, conscious and proud of their language and culture.
That’s when it sees the customs who demand special status for themselves, By saying they are unique and different from people from the plains, “he said, while giving the annual commemorating lectures of Sudeb Roychowdhury, institutionalized to remember the deceased journalist.
In 1835, the Darjeeling and Kenkeong subdivisions were transferred to England by King Sikkim and thus began a journey forming Darjeeling under England, said The Hostrian.
Dr.
Campbell, a British Nepalese, was transferred to Darjeeling in 1839 to start a sanatorium for injured soldiers and to attract settlers.
The idea was also to get people who were educated from the plains and Britain to rise looking for trade and trade since preparing tea plantations into a priority.
The population grew in the next 10 years from 100 to 10,000 in Darjeeling, turning into a summer home for England.
“100 people belonged to Nepal and Bhutia Origins.
Once England began to develop the place, it became a depot to recruit Gorkha and the 1840s saw the beginning of Gorkha regiment,” Chakraborty said, who taught at Darjeeling Government College for 10 years before joining the Presidency.
Even tea park workers become aware of their rights.
People, like Gandhian Dal Bahadur Giri and Helen Lepcha, give leadership to people’s thoughts and rights.
The struggle for identity has not ended for the hill man, Chakraborty said.