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Academic Projects

'Simply Heaven': Tourism, Hindu Nationalism, and the Creation of Modern Uttarakhand (1976-2000)

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Map Highlighting Uttarakhand, from Chris Crothers, Department of Geography, Environment, and Population, The University of Adelaide

As my MA/MSc dissertation argues, between 1976 and 2000—years of tremendous upheaval within Uttarakhand—Uttarakhand transformed into a nexus of tourism and Hindu nationalism. During this period, Uttarakhand not only increasingly aligned with tourism for its development; interrelatedly, various voices and discourses construed of Uttarakhand’s popular tourist spaces and evolving state profile in a Hindu nationalist manner.
 

©2025 by Colin Phelan

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