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Social change in Indian Tibet

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ID3066565
AuthorsJohn Hurrell Crook (corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume19
Issue1
Pages139-166
Publication date1980-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science Information (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/053901848001900105
OpenAlexW2071654853
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited6

The traditional economy of Ladakh was based in a polyandrous domus transmit ted between generations by primogeniture. Different forms of polyandry and its monogamous alternative are related to contrasts in the subsistence base as bet ween agricultural production and an urban cash economy of traders. The con struction of the military road from Kashmir to Leh, the capital of Ladakh, has facilitated shifts in resource availability which affect numerous interconnected features of the Ladakhi pattern of living; marital patterns, educational orienta tion, the stability of the monastic land-owning system, the balance of influence between muslim and buddhist Ladakhis on the one hand and newcomers mostly from Kashmir on the other and the use of the Ladakhi language. While the monastic system is clearly under strain and the whole buddhist culture of the region threatened there are signs of strength and adaptability in the old culture that may still reorient to the demands of the developing economy. Tourism merely accentuates the pressures and changes which the strategic open ing of Ladakh during the conflicts of India with Pakistan and China had already begun

Adaptability · Agriculture · Biology · Buddhism · Business · China · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Geography · Subsistence agriculture · Tourism · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Ecology

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Unique citing works4
Citations per year0,09
Citation span1980 - 2015 (36)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3

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