Trans-Himalayan Caravans: Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh

by Janet Rizvi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195658175
• ISBN13: 9780195658170
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"