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Routeing the Commodities of the Empire through Sikkim (1817–1906)

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Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

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I begin this chapter by juxtaposing Richard Temple’s comment made in the late 1880s with a question-reply emerging from Tibet:

Why do the British insist on establishing trade-marts? Their goods are coming in from India right up to Lhasa. Whether they have their marts or not things come all the same. The British were merely bent on over-reaching us.2

They sometimes believe, justly perhaps, that commerce follows the flag, and sometimes the flag follows the commerce; therefore they [Tibetans] think that politics has something to do with trade.1

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    Vibha Arora (Associate Professor of Sociology)

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Arora, V. (2013). Routeing the Commodities of the Empire through Sikkim (1817–1906). In: Curry-Machado, J. (eds) Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283603_2

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