Marginalization of Gorkhas in India : A Community in Quest of Indian Identity

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Knowing Darjeeling Darjeeling Gorkhas and Gorkha tea garden workers 3 The Gorkha tea garden workers 4 Marginalization of Gorkha tea plantation workers 5 The Gorkhas and globalization 6 An academic conclusion ReferencesThis is a sociological study on the marginalisation of Gorkha community in India The study has incorporated various facet of Gorkha marginalization in India The socio-economic political and cultural dimensions of the Gorkhas are highlighted in the study and how these aspects of Gorkha life are affected by the marginalization process of mainstream communities of the country on the one hand and on the other hand the impacts of globalization on these aspects of Gorkhas The work will definitely help the readers students scholars and policy makers of the government who are genuinely interested to know the pitiable platitudes of Indian Gorkhas and that may add more and more academic literature on the marginalized Indian Gorkhas The study has also stressed the need for new theory building for the marginalized Gorkhas of India Again the study has stressed that either the other communities of the country should accept the fact that the Gorkhas have been fully marginalized by mainstream communities of the country or they should feel the need for recognition of the Gorkha community in India through the constitutional redressal The work will ultimately help the people of the country who hardly know anything details about the pitiable platitudes of Indian Gorkhas and their contribution to the nation building approach during the span of last give hundred years of their living in India jacket 154 pp.…