Ladakh: Culture at the Crossroads
Munbai: Marg Publications, 2005. Hardcover. Blue illustrated boards with matching dust jacket. 124 pages : color illustrations. VG/VG minor dustjacket wear. Previous owners bookplate on ffep. Pages otherwise clean and white. Item #180546
ISBN: 9788185026718
Situated in the high desert reaches of the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges and frequently presented as a remote and isolated part of the world, Ladakh has actually been a crossroads for the transmission of goods and ideas for at least a thousand years. From the 10th century it was an independent country ruled by the Buddhist Namgyal dynasty until 1834 when it was annexed by the Dogras, the Hindu rulers of Jammu. Well into the 20th century Ladakh was a key staging post on Central and South Asian trade routes and the region hosted visitors hailing from Srinagar to Yarkand. This cosmopolitanism is reflected in the arts and material heritage, where indigenus Ladakhi expression is often intermixed with Tibetan, Kashmiri, and Central Asian elements. Some art forms display considerable continuities with the past while others are distinguished by the unique cultural practices of subregional communities, such as the textiles of nomadic pastoralists inhabiting the northeastern parts of Ladakh.-Dustjacket.
OCLC: 62517125
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