Trans-Himalayan Traders
Trans-Himalayan Traders

Author: James F. Fisher

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9789745242012

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In this groundbreaking study, anthropologist Fisher analyses the external forces that impact this isolated and otherwise self-sufficent community in western Nepal.

Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed
Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed

Author: James F. Fisher

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789745242029

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Anthropologist Fisher returns to Tarang in northwestern Nepal, 44 years after conducting his groundbreaking study there, to document and analyse the impact of modernization on a once-isolated people.

Trans-Himalayan Caravans
Trans-Himalayan Caravans

Author: Janet Rizvi

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13:

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This book documents the extraordinarily complex pattern of trade upon which the pre-Independence economy of Ladakh largely depended. Although the trans-Himalayan traffic in subsistence commodities in other parts of the Himalaya has been researched, that in Ladakh has until now remained almost entirely undocumented. The book is based mainly on oral evidence; this is related to documentary sources ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. This intriguing account of Ladakhi trade is spiced with enough personal details of the traders at all levels, to demonstrate that trade' is something more than a matter of routes and commodities, prices and rates of profit; it is an activity carried out by real human beings, profoundly colouring their entire way of life.

The Himalayan Border Region
The Himalayan Border Region

Author: Christoph Bergmann

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-18

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 3319297074

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Drawing from extensive archival work and long-term ethnographic research, this book focuses on the so-called Bhotiyas, former trans-Himalayan traders and a Scheduled Tribe of India who reside in several high valleys of the Kumaon Himalaya. The area is located in the border triangle between India, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR, People’s Republic of China), and Nepal, where contestations over political boundaries have created multiple challenges as well as opportunities for local mountain communities. Based on an analytical framework that is grounded in and contributes to recent advances in the field of border studies, the author explores how the Bhotiyas have used their agency to develop a flourishing trans-Himalayan trade under British colonial influence; to assert an identity and win legal recognition as a tribal community in the political setup of independent India; and to innovate their pastoral mobility in the context of ongoing state and market reforms. By examining the Bhotiyas’ trade, identity and mobility this book shows how and why the Himalayan border region has evolved as an agentive site of political action for a variety of different actors.