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%T 'From Mangoes to Apples': Exploring Belonging in New Tehri %A Joshi, Saakshi %J EthnoScripts: Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien %N 1 %P 91-111 %V 21 %D 2019 %K Himalayas; New Tehri; Tehri; Uttarakhand; belonging; dam; visthapit %@ 2199-7942 %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-8-14175 %U https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/article/view/1417/1248 %X When the Tehri Dam in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand submerged the town of Tehri, the locals found themselves turned into visthapit (the 'displaced'). This new position, a consequence of dam induced displacement and relocation to new geographies, triggered recollections of their previous lives in Tehri. Often recalled as a local cultural centre for surrounding villages, the old town appears in daily conversations of its former residents. By discussing Tehri, the oustees return to a place they can now experience only tangentially. This article explores how displacement and belonging come to be expressed through a place that has no existing cartographic coordinates - a place living in memories. My ethnographic work in the town of New Tehri, a namesake built for the purpose of relocation, guides these arguments. %C DEU %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info