HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies Volume 33 Number 1 Article 9 March 2014 Sikkim the Place and Sikkim the Documentary: Reading Political History through the Life and After-Life of a Visual Representation Suchismita Das University of Chicago,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya Recommended Citation Das, Suchismita. 2014. Sikkim the Place and Sikkim the Documentary: Reading Political History through the Life and After-Life of a Visual Representation. HIMALAYA 33(1). Available at: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol33/iss1/9 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. This Research Article is brought to you for free and open access by the DigitalCommons@Macalester College at DigitalCommons@Macalester College. It has been accepted for inclusion in HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Macalester College. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Sikkim the Place and Sikkim the Documentary: Reading Political History through the Life and After-Life of a Visual Representation Acknowledgements I would like to thank Dr Mark Turin for all the encouragement and for the wonderfully insightful course on the visual representation of the Himalayas, from which the idea of this article germinated. I am grateful to the two anonymous reviewers and to Hope Cooke for their comments, which have helped