SECTION 1. Introduction1. Introduction2. Geological Evolution of the HimalayaSECTION 2. Histories of Engagement : The Colonial and Postcolonial Making of Himalayan Studies3. Sino-Tibetan Relations and the Specter of Empire in the Himalayas4. The Himalayas in Global Empire5. Geopolitics and State Building in the Himalaya, 1814-Present6.
Mountaineering in the Himalayas7. The Himalayas in the World Wars: Gurkha Recruitment and Anglo-Nepalese Diplomatic Transactions8. Glaciers of the Himalayas: A History of Affective Engagement with a Mountain EnvironmentSECTION 3. Histories of the Himalayas : Himalayan Worldviews9. Sketching the Folk Narratives of the Lepcha Landscape: Folklore as Environmental History in the Himalayas10. Hinduism in the Himalaya: Tantra, Embodiment, and the Goddess11. Tendrel, Connections Across the Mountains: Mobility, Relationships, and Differences in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhism12. Making of a Region: Islam, Tibet, and the Himalayas13.
Christianity in Nepal and the HimalayasSECTION 4. Histories of Communities : Local and Transregional Connections14. The People of the (Kathmandu) Valley: Land, Heritage, and Belonging Among the Newars of Swaniga/Nepal Mandala15. Decolonizing "Tibetan" Studies: Empire, Ethnicity, and Rethinking Sovereignty16. Buddhist Kingdoms and States in the Himalayas: Histories and Their Legacies in the Mon Region (Mon yul)17. Historicizing the House of Gorkha: Genealogy, Family Feuds, and Network Building in the HimalayasSECTION 5. The Himalayas in Motion : The Contemporary Himalayas18. Everyday Life in the Himalayas19.
Ethnicity and Belonging in Contemporary Himalaya20. Language Policy, Education, and State Making in Nepal21. Cultural Belonging and the Question of Citizenship in Northeastern Borderlands22. Gender Equality in the Contemporary Himalayas: Restoring Ordination Status and Remodeling Advanced Education for Buddhist Women23. Road, Rail, and Air: Infrastructures of Promise in the Himalayas24. Scripting News, Editing Lyrics, Clearing Data: An Ethnography of Censorship, Surveillance, and Nationalizing the Eastern Himalayas in Northeast India25. Tourism, Tibetan-ness, and Entrepreneurship in China's Himalayan Borderlands26. COVID-19 and the Challenges of Language Use in Contemporary Bhutan27.
An Altar for the Anthropocene: Buddhist Material Culture and Climate Change in the Changing Himalayas28. Global Nepali and Himalayan Community: Migration, Identities, and Diasporas.