Trans-Himalayan Caravans: Merchant Princes & Peasant Traders In Ladakh

Rizvi Janet

ISBN 10: 0195658175 / ISBN 13: 9780195658170

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012

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21.5 x 14.0cms 358pp paperback. The book documents the complex pattern of trade upon the pre-independence economy of Ladakh largely depended.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trans-Himalayan Caravans: Merchant Princes & Peasant Traders In Ladakh
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195658175
• ISBN 13: 9780195658170
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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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.

About the Author

Janet Rizvi has a Ph.D. in History from Cambridge. She is a freelance writer and researcher. She is the author of Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia (OIP).