Colonialism, Land, and Labor in the Indian Himalaya — How did colonial agricultural development shape notions of land and labor on the margins of the British Empire?  This project explores missionary education and vocational training programs in Kalimpong, an agricultural enclave surrounded by tea plantations in Northeast India.  Research work will be archival. Fellows will examine colonial agricultural reports and documents; missionary writings and internal communications; and newspaper archives.  The objective for doing so is to understand how state-funded and missionary-led agricultural development made Indigenous people into legible, countable colonial subjects; how this work reshaped the mountain landscape; and how the expansion of small-scale food-producing agriculture in Kalimpong literally fed further colonial expansion on the edges of India. Students will work with ILR Professor Sarah Besky.