A new collection of photographs, focusing on Tibetan refugees in the Indian town of Darjeeling, is now available to view in the FMO photo gallery.
Darjeeling is host to one of the oldest refugee centres in the Tibetan Diaspora. This collection of photos focuses on the work of Darjeeling’s Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre (TRSHC).
Unlike the rehabilitation strategy for the permanent agricultural settlements in Southern India, the TRSHC began with the idea that no refugee could ever be rehabilitated in the fullest sense of the word without “Self-Help”.
The photographs in this collection were originally published in the article ‘Organizing for exile! “Self-Help” among Tibetan refugees in an Indian town‘ by Sudeep Basu, Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion, National Law School of India University.