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Oxford UP Darjeeling Reconsidered: Histories by Middleton Townsend ; Shneiderman Sara
Darjeeling occupies a special place in the South Asian imaginary. With its Himalayan vistas, lush tea gardens, and brisk mountain air, Darjeeling was the consummate colonial hill-station. The romance with the "queen of the hills" lives on, as thousands of tourists (domestic and international) annually flock to the hills to taste its world-renowned tea, soak up the colonial nostalgia, and glimpse mighty Mount Kanchenjunga. Darjeeling's fame has now gone global and its
legacy continues to fuel Hollywood and Bollywood fantasies. But this is only part of Darjeeling's story.