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Ladakh's geographic location between the Himalaya and Karakoram mountains has exposed it to competing political and cultural influences from India, Central Asia and Tibet. This book points to Ladakh's distinct local identity, but argues that its historical development can best be understood in a wider regional perspective. It contains twenty-five research papers from the International Association of Ladakh Studies (IALS), and draws on contributions from historians, art historians, linguists and anthropologists. Their sources include Ladakhi historical documents, comparative linguistic research, visual evidence from temple architecture and inscriptions, Mughal biographies, European travel accounts, government records, trade receipts, and local oral tradition. Taken together, the volume provides a much richer view of Ladakhi history than was previously available, and makes a significant contribution to the study of the wider Himalayan region.

Ladākh (India) --- La-dwags (India) --- Ladākh District (India) --- Ladākh Tahsil (India) --- Laddākha (India) --- Laddakh (India) --- History. --- Collection of essays. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Union Territory of Ladākh (India) --- Ladakh (India)

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"Sophie Day presents houses as critical actors which provide the grounds for citizenship in Ladakh, North India. She explores the life stories of a handful of houses, most of them Buddhist, as they sculpt - or render - their inhabitants. Through collaboration with Ladakhi colleagues - together looking over images and objects, walking plots of land, inspecting old buildings, new developments and emptying villages - Day produces storyboards that combine image and text to show how houses have been imagined, built, repurposed, and dismantled since the 1980s. These Ladakhis were pastoralists, nuns, traders and smallholders forty years ago, but now depend largely on the Indian state and tourism for their livelihood. One consequence is the partitioning of houses among families, which evoke earlier partitions involving momentous territorial settlements between postcolonial India, Pakistan, and China in the 20th century. Partitioning legacies continue to trouble national, regional, and domestic house plots today. Day's exploration of the intricate relations of personhood between domestic houses and their members provides insight into the anthropology of a region for specialists and non-specialists alike"--

Dwellings --- Social aspects. --- Ladākh (India) --- Social conditions. --- Dwellings and society --- Society and dwellings --- La-dwags (India) --- Ladākh District (India) --- Ladākh Tahsil (India) --- Laddākha (India) --- Laddakh (India) --- Union Territory of Ladākh (India)

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Art and Architecture in Ladakh shows how the region’s cultural development has been influenced by its location across the great communications routes linking India with Tibet and Central Asia. Edited by Erberto Lo Bue and John Bray, the collection contains 17 research papers by experienced international art historians and architectural conservationists, as well as emerging scholars from Ladakh itself. Their topics range widely over time, from prehistoric rock art to mediaeval Buddhist stupas and wall paintings, as well as early modern castle architecture, the inter-regional trade in silk brocades, and the challenges of 21st century conservation. Taken together, these studies complement each other to provide a detailed view of Ladakh’s varied cultural inheritance in the light of the latest research. Contributors include: Monisha Ahmed, Marjo Alafouzo, André Alexander, Chiara Bellini, Kristin Blancke, John Bray, Laurianne Bruneau, Andreas Catanese, Philip Denwood, Quentin Devers, Phuntsog Dorjay, Hubert Feiglstorfer, John Harrison, Neil and Kath Howard, Gerald Kozicz, Erberto Lo Bue, Filippo Lunardo, Kacho Mumtaz Ali Khan, Heinrich Poell, Tashi Ldawa Thsangspa and Martin Vernier.

Art --- Architecture --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Building --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Design and construction --- Ladākh (India) --- La-dwags (India) --- Ladākh District (India) --- Ladākh Tahsil (India) --- Laddākha (India) --- Laddakh (India) --- Civilization. --- Architecture, Primitive --- Art, Primitive --- Union Territory of Ladākh (India)