Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the Iats, 2003. Volume 2: Tibetan Borderlands

by P. Christiaan Klieger

Since the occupation of Tibet by the Peoples Republic of China in 1959, former border principalities and feudatories of the former realm of the Dalai Lama have broken away and have developed sociopolitical and economic bonds with other states. Sikkim, Bhutan, Ladakh, and the Tibeto-Burman speaking regions of Burma, Nepal, and others have all developed strong ethnic identities apart from Tibet. Eleven well-known scholars working in these borderlands...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004154825
• ISBN13: 9789004154827
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 258 Pages