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Kalimpong as a Transcultural Missionary Contact Zone
Abstract This article explores Kalimpong as a transformative mountain space for mixed-race children, a locality closely associated with a range of imperial missionary activity, notably through the personality and career of its famous adoptive citizen, the Rev. John Anderson Graham, the founder of the St Andrew’s Colonial Homes, now known as Graham’s Homes. From the 1870s, the Foreign Mission of the Church of Scotland undertook an array of activities directed at the diverse populations of the hill-station towns of Kalimpong and Darjeeling on the mountainous edges of British India and the regions of Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, and Tibet. The chapter examines how Scottish Presbyterian associational networks around print, religion, education, social reform, and self-help enterprises helped develop Kalimpong’s role as a transcultural and transnational hub that functioned as a key contact zone in the Eastern Himalayan region.
