Four Millennia of Himalayan Dairy Heritage — Documented
This gallery documents Himalayan chhurpi traditions through illustrative works created for scholarly and educational use. The images represent production environments, market settings, communities, landscapes, and the product itself across the chhurpi belt — from Darjeeling and Sikkim through Nepal and Bhutan to Northeast India. They are documentary in intent: created to illuminate and preserve visual knowledge of a tradition at risk, not for commercial purposes.
All visual material on chhurpi.org is published under Creative Commons licensing and may be reproduced for scholarly, educational, and non-commercial purposes with attribution. For commercial reproduction or high-resolution versions for publication, please contact us through the media inquiry portal.
If you have original documentary photographs of chhurpi production, markets, communities, tools, or landscapes — particularly from under-documented regions (Arunachal Pradesh, Mustang, remote Bhutan) — we would like to hear from you. We accept RAW and high-resolution JPEG, with minimum 2,400px on the long edge. All contributions published under CC BY-SA 4.0 with full photographer attribution.