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Roskilde University Kalimpong The China Connection Poddar, Prem; Lindkvist Zhang, Lisa Published in: Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands Publication date: 2017 Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Citation for published version (APA): Poddar, P., & Lindkvist Zhang, L. (2017). Kalimpong: The China Connection. In M. Viehbeck (Ed.), Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands: Kalimpong as a "Contact Zone" (pp. 149-174). Heidelberg University Publishing. 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Sep. 2021 Prem Poddar and Lisa Lindkvist Zhang Kalimpong: The China Connection Abstract Historically identifiable contact between Kalimpong and in- coming Chinese migrants occurred, at the latest, in the early twentieth century. This essay makes reference to some of the interfaces and events involved, but chiefly focuses on the three phases in which Kalimpong emerged in the Chinese communist consciousness, especially the period between the mid-1950s and the early 1960s. The representations of Ka- limpong in the Chinese language Renmin Ribao (hereafter People’s Daily) of this time clearly embody the anxieties, fears, and suspicions that the Chi- nese government harboured about the foment and ferment of socio-polit- ical encounters with their locus in “Galunbao” ( or Kashag ministers’ 噶伦堡 fortress). From a town hosting the Chinese trade agency and an “idyllic” (or tianyuan ) place where the Dalai Lama and the townspeople met, 田园 to its transformation into a “nest of spies” (a term used by both Nehru and Zhou Enlai) where “Indian expansionists,” “American and British imperial- ists,” and “Tibetan rebels” rubbed conspiratorial shoulders, Kalimpong was finally represented after 1962 as the place where Indian authorities were in cahoots with the Kuomintang, and put the local Chinese through the wringer. Using colonial archives, untranslated Chinese material, and sec- ondary published sources together with recent interviews and field notes, the essay analyses these narratives, marked as they are by an ambivalence about the place’s vernacularly cosmopolitan character. The hill station also emerges as a barometer and metonymic stand-in for the problematic rela- tionship between China and India. 149 PREM PODDAR AND LISA LINDKVIST ZHANG […] so far as Kalimpong is concerned […] a complicated game of chess [is being played here] by various nationalities (Nehru, 2nd of April 1959). […] what the map cuts up, the story cuts across (de Certeau). A sense of politics does not generally unzip easily as an unequivocally observable analytic category with significances and meanings that are, of necessity, revealed and concealed. The aim of this paper is nevertheless to analyse, as clearly as possible, the People’s Daily’s representations of the border town of Kalimpong1 in the 1950s and 1960s. Kalimpong came to play a pivotal role in the border politics of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Republic of India (ROI) for three reasons: (i) Historically a British trade post since the mid-nineteenth century, Kalimpong was favourably located on the Lhasa-Kolkata trade route—the same route used by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the early 1950s to transport supplies from China to Tibet2 after the Battle of Chamdo. (ii) A sizeable Tibetan popula- tion lived in Kalimpong, especially after the PLA invaded the Kham region, when refugees started to stream into Kalimpong. This Tibetan population included residents, traders, refugees, and most importantly for this paper, influential members of the Kashag (or the Tibetan Governing Council). (iii) A diasporic Chinese population lived in Kalimpong, many of whom later were interned in Deoli after the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Drawing on archi- val material from the People’s Daily, fieldwork notes along with interviews conducted over a period of three weeks, and many published primary and secondary sources, we shall attempt to show how Kalimpong functioned as a metonymic ambit in which ROI-PRC relations were to be played out in the 1950s and the 1960s. Akin to Pravda’s status in the Soviet Union at its height, People’s Daily, as an official organ of the Chinese Communist party directly controlled by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee (Wu 1994, 195), provided direct (and sometimes oblique) information on the policies and viewpoints of the government. Even though Deng Tuo (a well-known poet and intellectual) was its editor-in-chief during much of the time in ques- tion here, the newspaper, it is believed, was effectively controlled by Mao’s 1 Besides , also spelt and in present day usage. See for example 噶伦堡the entry in the Chinese卡林邦 Wikipedia卡林蓬 (Wikipedia 2015). This is in itself interesting since the older rendering or “Galunbao” literally means “Kashag ministers’ fortress” (“ ” signifies噶伦堡 a member of the Kashag/Tibetan Government according to the噶伦 Hanyu Da Cidian ( ) and denotes a fortress-like construction)). and are汉语大词典 probably transliterations堡 of the English name Kalimpong卡林邦 as they read卡林蓬 “Kalinbang” and “Kalinpeng” in pin- yin. None of the Chinese documents that we have read use or to denote Kalimpong, but a quick Baidu search verifies that the卡林邦 names are卡林蓬 in use, especially by tourist websites. 2 Whenever we refer to Tibet, we are mainly making reference to political Tibet or the Dalai Lama’s state, and not ethnographic Tibet signifying the stateless braid of ethnic Tibetan localities. 150 KALIMPONG: THE CHINA CONNECTION personal secretary Hu Qiaomu. The paper’s commentaries included here clearly represent the fears and anxieties of the Chinese government, espe- cially in relation to Tibetan insurgency and suspicions about the postcolo- nial Indian establishment’s possible sympathy and support for the Dalai Lama. Although India publicly denied it, it is not a wild conjecture that Jenk- hentsisum, the main Tibetan émigré opposition group in Kalimpong, was secretly being assisted by India. The appearance of the name of “Kalimpong” in headlines in the People’s Daily spans the period from March 1955 to August 1963. These articles can loosely be grouped into three different themes that correspond to the historic unravelling of the Sino-Indian relationship, with its fulcrum in the idea and territory of Tibet. (i) 1955–57: Kalimpong as a nondescript, idyllic ( ) mountain town; (ii) 1959: Kalimpong as a “nest of spies”3 and com- 田园 mand centre for Tibetan rebels; (iii) 1963: Kalimpong as a place that is hos- tile towards the Chinese. Interfaces and entanglements: a conceptual detour Between the 1900s and early 1960s, this interstitial space “[o]n the thresh- old of three closed lands” (Graham 1897) can best be summed up as a restless junction where cultures collided and coalesced, giving Kalimpong an air of being “vernacularly cosmopolitan” (Bhabha 1996, 191–207)4 or a “[b]order cosmopolis” (Steele 1951). Significantly—even though we use these terms rather loosely—culture, history, and politics exist here as “sup- plements,” “adding only to replace, or insinuating themselves in place of the original, only then to become the original that in turn becomes written over and replaced again” (Dirks 2015, 74–75). The discursive evidence we employ in this essay bears out Pratt’s transcultural “contact perspective,” underlining “how subjects are constituted in and by their relations to each other” such that “copresence, interaction, interlocking understandings and practices” (Pratt 2003, 7) are foregrounded, despite what states, govern- ments, and media outlets might project. These projections are a function of cartographic anxieties that relate to separatist sentiments and normalized national and ethnic boundaries. Movements—separatist and unifying— appear to be common elements of Prattian contact processes, pointing to a circulatory notion of cognisance production: individuals constitute their identities in their encounters with others who, in turn, do the same thing, setting up an economy of perceptual reticulation. History has borne out the fact that the hybridised Kalimpong border has invited, to cite Friedman 3 It is difficult to ascertain when the term was first used, but it was routinely recycled to invoke the shenanigans occurring in an otherwise restive and quiet place. 4 The term is Homi Bhabha’s. He deploys it to point to a multi-ethnic ethics as a counterweight to the Eurocentric claims vested in notions of a classic, Kantian cosmopolitanism. 151 PREM PODDAR AND LISA LINDKVIST ZHANG writing in a different context, “transgression, dissolution, reconciliation, and mixing” (Friedman 1998, 17), even as we know that every representa- tion of the Kalimpong world (or any other place for that matter)—poised between the spatial, social, and historical—is ultimately
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