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From:Mountain Research and Development (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article deals with the development of irrigated agriculture in the Upper Indus Basin of Central Ladakh in Northern India. Artificial irrigation, fed by meltwater from glaciers and snow cover, forms the backbone of...
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From:Contemporary Southeast Asia (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSamudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific. By C. Raja Mohan. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2012. Softcover: 329pp. Raja Mohan's book is premised on three inter-related...
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From:International Journal of Comparative Sociology (Vol. 37, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIn the interest of illustrating how approaches to the study of tourism in a local society can be respectful of its specific social complexity, I will evoke the history and culture of Ladakh and focus in particular on the...
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From:Nomadic Peoples (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis brief report presents some findings of a study conducted among the nomadic pastoral Changpa in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh. The research forms the basis of a doctoral dissertation in human geography,...
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From:Buddhist-Christian Studies (Vol. 38) Peer-ReviewedIn 1715 Ippolito Desideri spent nearly two months in the Himalayan Buddhist kingdom of Ladakh, together with his Portuguese fellow Jesuit and superior, Manoel Freyre. They were well received by King Nyima Namgyal, the...
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From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 62, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedUsing narrative interviews as primary data, this investigation considers the recent remarkable increase in traditional folk healers (lha-mo, lha-pa, "oracle") who perform shamanic curing and divination in Ladakh,...
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From:PeerJ (Vol. 6) Peer-ReviewedThe Himalaya is one of the youngest and the loftiest mountain chains of the world; it is also referred to as the water tower of Asia. The Himalayan region harbors nearly 10,000 plant species constituting approximately...
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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 117, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis reprint of the proceedings of the third meeting of the Csoma de Koros Symposium, held at Velm, Austria, in September of 1981, consists of forty-eight papers by invited participants, including five by Tibetans. The...
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From:Harvard International Review (Vol. 34, Issue 2)Amidst talk of "BRIC" countries and the "Asian Century," the past decade has seen an unprecedented level of Western interest in the affairs of China and India. Despite the obvious differences between the two...
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From:Naval War College Review (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEver since 1962, when soldiers from the People's Republic of China inflicted humiliating defeat on Indian forces, India and China have maintained an uneasy coexistence along the world's longest disputed frontier. (1)...
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From:The Ecologist (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAround the world, the pressure to conform to the expectations of the spreading, consumer monoculture is destroying cultural identity, eliminating local economies and erasing regional differences. As a consequence the...
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From:Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 64, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe emergence of China and India on the geopolitical landscape will define international affairs in the 21st century. Together, the two countries represent more than a third of the world's population, use over a quarter...
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From:The Tibet Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Commemorating 50 years of Indian hospitality towards the Tibetan people, what could fit better than a contribution concerning the region at the very junction of Tibet and India: Ladakh? Once a colony of...
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From:Libraries & Culture (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Himalayan Club was established in 1928, and its highly regarded library in Simla was an integral part of its activities from the outset. After a few comments about Simla, where the library was located until 1946, as...
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From:The Tibet Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedCollecting material for writing a New Indo-Tibetica Series the present author has been conducting a village-to-village survey in Lahaul-Spiti and Kinnaur-two frontier districts of Himachal Pradesh. The present study...
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From:Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 64, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper investigates the threat of a water war between China and India. It argues that Indian suspicion of China has been premature. Beijing has not jet given its approval for major water diversion projects in Tibet,...
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From:Human Ecology (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe describe the diversity and dynamism of social, agricultural, and livestock husbandry practices in a traditional mountain production system in the Indian Trans-Himalaya. These are interpreted in the context of their...
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From:The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRival: "From L. rivalis 'a rival'; originally, 'one who uses the same stream' (or 'one on the opposite side of the stream'), from rivus 'brook'." (1) Just how apt the Latin etymology of our English words "rival" and...
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From:Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedChina and India are not just the world's two most populous countries--since the turn of the millennium, they have also become two juggernauts driving much of the economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region. Many believe...
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From:World Affairs (Vol. 175, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedJust as the Indian subcontinental plate has a tendency to constantly rub and push against the Eurasian tectonic plate, causing friction and volatility in the entire Himalayan mountain range, India's bilateral...