Kalimpong uncovered: Borders, diasporas and hidden histories

‘Through the India-China Border’ fills the longstanding gap in scholarship on Kalimpong.

Putting a context on Kalimpong, with its picturesque location and its rich, layered past, one is allowed to wax eloquent—more so when that context is pitched against the backdrop of that twentieth-century behemoth to the north, China. And the book under review here, Prem Poddar and Lisa Lindkvist Zhang’s ‘Through the India-China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas’ (CUP, 2025) sets out to do just that.