LADAKH STUDIES 12, Autumn 1999 - International Association for ...

NEW BOOK
TRANSHIMALAYAN CARAVANS
Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh
from the publisher’s promotion material:
by Janet Rizvi
“Janet Rizvi, author of Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia, . . . has used documentary sources to flesh
out the history of the various trades; but it is her use of the technique of oral history that gives a
sense of immediacy to her account. Her interviews with about 80 elderly Ladakhis and others who
were personally involved in one trade or another, bring the human element to the fore, showing how
vital the traders’ contribution was to the self-reliance of Ladakh’s economy in the pre-
Independence period, and conversely what such involvement in trade meant to their lives and those
of their families.”
Contents
• Introduction: Silk, Spices and Salt: the Trades of Inner Asia
• The Routes
• The Pashm Trade
• Zanskar and the Suru Valley
• The Entrepreneurs
• The Leh-Lhasa Trade
• The Trans-Karakoram Trade Remembered
• The Kiraiyakash
• The Old Order Changeth . . .
• Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
384 pp., 4 pages of colour plates, 4 maps, 35 photographs
Published by Oxford University Press (India)
September 1999
ISBN 0195648552
Hardback, ca. INR 650
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