You might also like

Availability alert

More about Trans-Himalayan Caravans

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 62 loyalty points

Book synopsis

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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Trans-Himalayan Caravans
• Author: Janet Rizvi
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 388
• EAN: 9780195658170
• ISBN: 0195658175
• ID: 04519923
• Publisher: OUP India
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 140 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2001

Trending among others

---

---

---