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- W2182791343 abstract "Darjeeling town is host to one of the oldest refugee centres in the Tibetan Diaspora. Established in October 2 nd 1959, the Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre (TRSHC) has become one of the most powerful symbols of resilience of the Tibetan community in exile. Unlike the rehabilitation strategy for the permanent agricultural settlements in Southern India which were built at the behest of Tibetan Government-in-exile in Dharamsala and the Government of India, the TRSHC emerged spontaneously with the idea that no refugee could ever be rehabilitated in the fullest sense of the word without “Self-Help”, a realization that this “vital element could only come from within the community from within one’s selves”. Guided by the ethic of “Self-Help”, the self-settled Tibetan refugees in Darjeeling town could achieve better integration into a multi-ethnic host society despite the perils of living in protracted exile. What began as a steady flow of Tibetan refugees into India since April 1959, following the flight of the Dalai Lama into exile, soon turned into a mass exodus. For those Tibetans who fled, the decision followed upon a personal conviction that life in Tibet had become unendurable. While some refugees managed to bring their families, many had to flee alone, leaving their families behind. When they arrived in India, most of the refugees were starving or wounded, ill from the low altitude and stunned by the profound cultural shock of descending on an alien world (Phuntso 2004: 134). Initially, two large transit camps had been established to handle the influx of refugees in consultation with the Government of India: one at Missamari, located ten miles from Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh; the other at Buxa Duar, a former British prisoner-of-war camp situated near the Bhutanese border in West Bengal. “The camps represented an effort not" @default.
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- W2182791343 title "Organizing for Exile! Self-Help among Tibetan Refugees in an Indian Town" @default.
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