LADAKH STUDIES 14, Autumn 2000 - International Association for ...

EDITORIAL
I am pleased to present this fourteenth issue of Ladakh Studies, whose contents reflect the breadth
of interests represented among our members and contributors. For example, Gabriele Reifenberg
translates and introduces an account of a winter journey to Zangskar by Moravian missionary and
scholar A.H. Francke, taking us back almost a century. And Professor Richard V. Lee reports on
medical research carried out in Zanskar in recent years.
This issue also carries a call for papers and pre-registration information for the upcoming tenth
Colloquium of the IALS, to be held at Oxford in September and convened by John Bray and Clare
Harris. Otherwise, there is an in memoriam for Hugh Richardson, who passed away recently, a
sampling of news from Ladakh taken from Indian newspapers, two book reviews and the traditional
bibliography update.
As members will have noticed, we are running behind our publication schedule by a few months.
Partly, this is due to problems with the reproduction and shipping of the last two issues, particularly
distribution in India, where we are lagging even more. We apologize for these delays and hope to
establish a system of production and distribution that is both economical and reasonably fast.
I would also like to take this opportunity to once again encourage you all to send contributions of
news, reviews, or articles to the editor. This time, Louise Fournier helped obtain photographs of the
flooding in Ladakh last summer, while Henry Osmaston and Janet Rizvi contributed different pieces
of information. While we have managed to fill two issues per year without too much difficulty, a
disproportionate share of the content is produced by the same handful of people. We would
welcome more active contributions to the newsletter, so that we can perform our functions more
effectively and be more representative of the the wider membership of the Association.
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