@inbook{1d7477e7c0e141579e1e48428972ab5a,
title = "Object lessons in Tibetan: The thirteenth Dalai Lama, Charles Bell and connoisseurial networks in Darjeeling and Kalimpong, 1910-1912",
abstract = "On 18 June 1912, Charles Bell, Political Officer of Sikkim, paid his final visit to the thirteenth Dalai Lama at Bhutan House in Kalimpong. The significant gifts presented that day were the culmination of a series of object exchanges between the two men during the lama{\textquoteright}s exile in British India. These gifting moments were not only characterized by the mobility of the objects in question, but by the connoisseurial and empirical knowledge regularly offered with them. Using the concept of “object lessons,” this paper traces out how Bell was taught things with Tibetan objects. Furthermore, these exchanges are not only placed within the context of the Dalai Lama{\textquoteright}s exile in Darjeeling and Kalimpong between 1910 and 1912, but they highlight the potential to make alternate readings of histories and encounters if one closely follows things.",
keywords = "Connoisseurship, Tibet, Colonial India, Contact Zones, Transculturality, Material culture, Gifts, History of collecting, Knowledge Production, Hill Stations, Colonial Officers",
author = "Emma Martin",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.17885/heiup.301.409",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783946054573 ",
series = "Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality",
publisher = "Heidelberg University Publishing ",
pages = "177",
editor = "Markus Viehbeck",
booktitle = "Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands",
address = "Germany",
}