From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9515 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, August 15 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9515 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Leave your feedback and you could WIN! ["Whole Foods Opinion Requested" <] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 04:44:29 -0400 From: "Whole Foods Opinion Requested" Subject: Leave your feedback and you could WIN! Leave your feedback and you could WIN! http://wholefoodz.sa.com/pDqYbG3ZhO78DG-J-3LeKm6RSZbZhKvJxaB_Mayz7MDUsMkraQ http://wholefoodz.sa.com/9DcRELv64kF2TfdZiQLpG13CGpYk9MgULT67EpXDDqmPt3UKMw mmer retreat for British officials, soldiers and their families. The narrow mountain ridge was leased from the Kingdom of Sikkim, and eventually annexed to British India. Experimentation with growing tea on the slopes below Darjeeling was highly successful. Thousands of labourers were recruited chiefly from Nepal to clear the forests, build European-style cottages and work in the tea plantations. The widespread deforestation displaced the indigenous peoples. Residential schools were established in and around Darjeeling for the education of children of the domiciled British in India. By the late-19th century, a novel narrow-gauge mountain railway, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, was bringing summer residents into the town and carrying a freight of tea out for export to the world. After India's independence in 1947, as the British left Darjeeling, its cottages were purchased by wealthy Indians from the plains and its tea plantations by out-of-town Indian business owners and conglomerates. Darjeeling's population today is constituted largely of the descendants of the indigenous and immigrant labourers that were employed in the original development of the town. Although their common language, the Nepali language, has been given official recognition at the state and federal levels in India, the recognition has created little meaningful employment for the language's speakers nor has it increased their ability to have a significantly greater say in their politic ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9515 **********************************************