Ladakhi History and Indian Nationhood

Bray, John

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“…The principal crops grown are barley and wheat, while rice was always considered as a luxury item in their diet. Now, with new government subsidies rice has become a cheap staple [18]. The Pashmina goat or Changthangi goat (Capra aegagrushircus) is the main source of income from which the famous Pashmina shawls are obtained [15].…”

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Traditional Usage of Wild Fauna among the Local Inhabitants of Ladakh, Trans-Himalayan Region

Haq

Calixto

Yaqoob

et al. 2020

Animals

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Zootherapy is accepted all around the globe not only in ancient cultures but different animal derived medicines are also part of the practice in the modern health care systems. The present study assessed the traditional ethnozoological usage of wild animals by local inhabitants in Ladakh region, India, and the reference data for scientific approaches for protection of faunal diversity in trans-Himalayas. The ethnozoological documentation of the animals in Ladakh was carried out through semistructured and close-ended questionnaire surveys and interviews. Multivariate ecological community analysis was used to elucidate the relationship between ethnozoological usage and animal species. Our results showed three animal usage clusters with 32% similarity. Moreover, the similarity in animal usage between digging tools, trophy, handle of tools, decoration, and matting, showed less than 32% of similarity. The highest priority of local people was for food followed by decoration and medicinal usage. The most frequently used animal parts were meat followed by fur and horn. Medicinal uses of 48% of the reported species, i.e., Alectoris chukar (chukar), Cuon alpinus (Asiatic wild dog), Lepus oiostolus (hares), Marmota himalayana (marmots), Ovis aries vignei (Ladakh urial), Pantholops hodgsonii (Tibetan antelope), Procapra picticaudata (Tibetan gazelle), Pseudois nayaur (blue sheep), Tetraogallus himalayensis (Himalayan snow), Tetraogallus tibetanus (Tibetan snow cock), and Lutra lutra (common otter) were reported for the first time from this region. Our study provides innovative information regarding the ethnozoological knowledge in the Ladakh region and reference data for policymakers, researchers, land managers, common public, and the other stakeholders to develop logical and scientific approaches for sustainable use of faunal diversity in hotspot regions like trans-Himalayas and other similar biodiversity-rich sites.

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Traditional Usage of Wild Fauna among the Local Inhabitants of Ladakh, Trans-Himalayan Region

Haq

Calixto

Yaqoob

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“…Ladakh has since been transitioning to a cash-based society, with newer avenues for generating income through government employment and tourism, leading to newer social forms, including a transition to a consumer society. While monasteries have also benefitted from economic prosperity from tourism, they have lost their pinnacle role in the social hierarchy in Ladakh with the monastic life no longer as sought after or prestigious (Bray, 1991, pp. 125–126).…”

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“…Before the onset of modern education in Ladakh, monks were typically the most highly educated and literate in Ladakh. They advised royalty, and kings sought their loyalty (Bray, 1991, p. 116). Previously, Ladakhi monks were mainly ritual specialists, performing life course rituals such as at birth, death and marriage, and seasonal rituals, including at harvest time and New Year’s for the benefit and protection of Ladakhis.…”

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“…Ladakh, on the borders of Pakistan and China along what was once a trans-Himalayan trade route, boasts of a living, now thriving, Himalayan Buddhist culture that has existed since at least the tenth century (Singh, 2010). Previously an independent kingdom, Ladakh has frequently been described as ‘Little Tibet’ due to its close geographical, cultural, political and religious association with the Tibetan Empire (Bray, 1991; Dhondup, 1977; Michaud, 1991). Ladakh previously consisted of two autonomous districts, including Leh district, with a total population of 133,487 and a Buddhist majority, 2 and Kargil district with a total population of 140,802 and a Muslim majority.…”

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Buddhist Business and Benevolence in Leh, Ladakh

Williams-Oerberg

2020

Journal of Human Values

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Due to a burgeoning tourism industry in the Indian Himalayan region of Ladakh, Buddhist monasteries now have lucrative means for generating income through tourism-related business and financial support from international sponsors and local business owners. Where previously Buddhist monasteries were dependent on the donations and labour of the lay community, currently, with the accumulation of surplus wealth, many Buddhist leaders of prominent monasteries have begun flipping this donor system around. Throughout this article, I look at how Buddhist monastic leaders have invested surplus economic resources into philanthropic projects as a way to ‘give back’ to the wider community. I argue that the philanthropic initiatives by Buddhist leaders in Ladakh help to position Buddhist monastics as taking a leading role in the social and economic transformation of the region, thus working to push back against processes of secularization that threaten to decrease the influence of Buddhist monastic institutions.

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“…One of such mountainous regions is Ladakh which used to be a restricted land for the outside world due to its geo-strategic sensitivity (Bray, 1991;Warikoo et al, 2020) and tribal population (Smith, 2012). However, the government of India opened the region for tourism in 1974 (Bray, 1991), which marked the beginning of a new era for Ladakh. As per the data available from the Leh tourist office, 8,608 Indian and 16,256 foreign tourists visited Ladakh in 1988 (Bray, 1991).…”

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Spatiotemporal quantification of key environmental changes in Stok and Kang Yatze regions of Ladakh Himalaya, India

Soheb

Ramanathan

Bhardwaj

et al. 2022

Geocarto International

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Tourism fuelled economic transformation of Ladakh region is bringing a change in demography and livelihood preferences leading to increased exploitation of scarce natural resources. In addition to the nerve centre of tourism-related activities (Leh city), rural hinterlands of Ladakh are also witnessing a stark transformation in land and resource use patterns. In this study we quantified and assessed the changes in key environmental parameters of rural Ladakh between 1969 and 2020. We observed a decrease in glacier area, glacier volume and vegetation cover by ~19%, 13% and 14%, whereas built-up and lake area increased by ~238% and 122%, respectively. Simultaneously, local population of the region doubled while tourism footprint increased by ~620 folds. The study highlights the environmental changes happening at a higher rate in rural regions around Leh city. Therefore, need of the hour is to recognise the disruptive changes being brought in the traditional way of life and to devise strategies to reorient the development paradigm towards sustainable resource use and management.

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Ladakhi History and Indian Nationhood

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Traditional Usage of Wild Fauna among the Local Inhabitants of Ladakh, Trans-Himalayan Region

Traditional Usage of Wild Fauna among the Local Inhabitants of Ladakh, Trans-Himalayan Region

Buddhist Business and Benevolence in Leh, Ladakh

Spatiotemporal quantification of key environmental changes in Stok and Kang Yatze regions of Ladakh Himalaya, India

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