Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India (review)
In: Anthropological quarterly: AQ, Band 81, Heft 1, S. 297-300
ISSN: 1534-1518
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In: Anthropological quarterly: AQ, Band 81, Heft 1, S. 297-300
ISSN: 1534-1518
In: Alternatives: global, local, political, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 435-460
ISSN: 0304-3754
In: Anthropology of Asia series, 18
In: Commonwealth & comparative politics, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 118-119
In: Süd-Asien: Zeitschrift des Südasienbüro e.V, Band 15, Heft 6, S. 24-29
ISSN: 0933-5196
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In: Bray , J , Beek , M V , Gonkatsang , T & Wangchuk , P 2020 , ' Rahul Sankrityayan, Tsetan Phuntsog and Tibetan Textbooks for Ladakh in 1933 ' , Himalaya , vol. 39 , no. 2 , 11 , pp. 74-91 .
In 1933 the Indian scholar and social activist Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963) compiled a set of four Tibetan-language readers and a grammar for use in Ladakhi schools, together with his Ladakhi colleague Tsetan Phuntsog. The readers contain a mix of material from Western, Indian, Ladakhi and Tibetan sources. This includes simple essays about 'air' and 'water', selections from Aesop's fables, Indian folk stories, biographies of famous people in Ladakhi and Tibetan history, poems by Ladakhi authors, and extracts from the Treasury of Elegant Sayings by Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen (1182-1251). This essay begins with a review of earlier Tibetan-language schoolbooks published in British India, and then discusses the circumstances that led to Sankrityayan's involvement in the Ladakh project. The second part of the essay examines the contents of the readers and the grammar, including—where possible—the authorship of particular sections. Finally, the essay briefly reviews linguistic developments in Ladakh since the publication of the textbooks.
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In: Alternatives: global, local, political, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 415-525
ISSN: 0304-3754
Sonntag, S. K.: Autonomous councils in India. - S. 415-434. Van Beek, M.: Hill councils, development, and democracy. - S. 435-459. Prakash, A.: Contested discourses: politics of ethnic identity and autonomy in the Jharkhand region of India. - S. 461-496. Stuligross, D.: Autonomous councils in Northeast India. - S. 497-525
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