...Turrell V. Wylie The Cultural Heritage of Ladakh. Volume One: Central Ladakh . By David L. Snellgrove and Tadeusz Skorupski . Boulder : Prajna Press in association with Aris & Phillips Ltd. , 1977 . xviii, 144 pp. Bibliography, Index. $27.50. Copyright © The Association...

...John C. Huntington The Cultural Heritage of Ladakh. Vol. 2: Zangskar and the Cave Temples of Ladakh . By David L. Snellgrove and Tadeusz Skorupski , with Phillip Denwood . Warminster, Eng. : Aris and Phillips , 1980 . x, 166 pp. Illustrations, Color Plates, Bibliography, Abbreviations...

...Robert B. Ekvall Himalayan Battleground; Sino-Indian Rivalry in Ladakh . By Margaret W. Fisher , Leo E. Rose , Robert A. Huttenback . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1963 . viii , 205 . Bibliography, Glossary, Maps. $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964...

...Andrea Marion Pinkney Modern Ladakh: Anthropological Perspectives on Continuity and Change . Edited by Martijn van Beek and Fernanda Pirie . Leiden : Brill , 2008 . x , 314 pp. $147.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 The region...

... of world history. The history of Ladakh, where controversy currently rages over conflicting claims to Aksaichin, the Chang Chenmo Valley, Kurnak Fort, Spangur, and Demchok, has been characterized by instability and turmoil. Squeezed between Tibet, India, Kashmir, and the autonomous Muslim Rajahs...

...Graham E. Clarke Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh . Produced by John Page and the International Society for Ecology and Culture, 1993 . The Video Project, 5332 College Avenue, Suite 101, Oakland , CA 946128; The Ladakh Project , 21 Victoria Sq., Clifton, Bristol BS8 4ES. VHS format...

...Walter Spink Himalayan Art: Wall-painting and Sculpture in Ladakh, Lahaul and Spiti, The Siwalik Ranges, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan . By Madanjeet Singh . New York : UNESCO Art Books, New York Graphic Society, Ltd. , 1968 . 295 pp. Plates, Figures, Glossary, Index. $35.00. Copyright ©...

...Jeffrey E. Key An “Agreed” Frontier: Ladakh and India's Northernmost Borders, 1846–1947 . By Parshotam Mehra . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1992 . xii, 248 pp. $23.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1305 fragment...

...Sikata Banerjee State Identity and Violence: Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh . By Navnita Chadha Behera . New Delhi : Manohar , 2000 . 384 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 578 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Just as Koreans from all walks of life gained...

...Jim Fisher Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India . By Ravina Aggarwal . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2004 . ix , 305 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E...

...Deborah Klimburg-Salter Buddhist Wall Painting of Ladakh . Text by Charles Genoud ; photographs by Takao Inoue . Translated by Tom Tillemans . Geneva : Edition Olizane , 1981 . 116 pp. and 280 Color Plates. Glossary, Notes, Bibliography. $67.95. A Buddhist Paradise: The Murals...

...Robert A. Huttenback The Sino–Indian Border in Ladakh . By Alastair Lamb . Asian Publications Series No. 3. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1975 . x, 113 pp. Maps, Notes. $14.95 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 528 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... for this article derive from the project's application in the Ladakh region of the disputed Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The ways in which the official objectives of the project were interpreted and incorporated into the political, cultural, and economic aspirations of communities in Ladakh reveal both...

... reference to the monasteries’ historical and contemporary role in the region's politics, which is surprising. There is also not much written about the history of the Ladakhi Muslims in Ladakh, apart from brief notes about how in Ladakh, Kache, a general term for Muslims, are distinguished from Kachulpas...

... photographs. SURINDERM. BHARDWAJ Kent State University T h e Cultural Heritage of Ladakh. Volume One: Central Ladakh. By DAVID L. SNELLGROVE and TADEUSZ SKORUPSKI . Boulder: Prajna Press in association with Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1977. xviii, 144 pp. Bibliography, Index. $27.50. This profusely and beautifully...

... in the remote mountainous areas of Ladakh and Zanskar, nomadic pastoralists of Ladakh's Changthang plateau, an amchi lineage in Sikkim, and exiled Tibetans practicing in institutional contexts in the Himalayan foothills of Dharamsala and Darjeeling. According to the editors, each chapter's ethnography observes...

... AND VIDEO REVIEWS 1033 This combination gives a genuine, vernacular feel to the video and presents the changes in Ladakh as a whole rather than from a particular point of view. Yet, though true to the book in content, there are problems in scope and style; the transposition between mediums is not altogether...

... of a vision of that world as seen through Chinese spectacles. In fact, East Asia is part and parcel of a still bigger Asian world Inner, Southern, Central, and Western. Anomalies in one plane become patterns in another. RUTH W DUNNELL University of Washington The Cultural Heritage of Ladakh. Vol. 2: Zangskar...