| Description |
1 online resource (400 p.) |
| Series |
Brill's Tibetan Studies Library ; v.53 |
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Brill's Tibetan studies library.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Note on the Transliteration and Transcription of Tibetan Names and Terms -- Figures and Maps -- Tables -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Tax System in Central and Far East Tibet Towards the End of the Ganden Phodrang Reign: An Outline of Its Structure and Terminology -- Chapter 2 A Perspective on the Ganden Phodrang's Administration of Taxation in the 19th and 20th Centuries Based on Archival Sources |
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Chapter 3 "When You Count, Everything Is There, and When Everything Is There, Everything Vanishes": A Criticism of Tax Collecting in Ngamring District (rdzong) during the First Half of the 20th Century -- Chapter 4 Traditional Taxation Systems in Western Tibet: A Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 5 Lam yig-An Official Document Granting Travel Privileges in Tibet -- Chapter 6 "My Karma Selected Me to Become a Ferryman": The Role of Waterways and Watercraft in the Corvée Tax System in Pre-1959 Tibet |
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Chapter 7 Performing Tibetan Opera As khral in the First Half of the 20th Century: In Principle a "Tax", in Experience a Pervasive Obligation -- Chapter 8 A Preliminary Investigation Into Monk-Tax: The Concept of grwa khral/btsun khral/ban khral and Its Meanings -- Chapter 9 Monastic Obligations, Hat Change and Lhasa Encroachment: Taxation Rights Among Politico-Religious Shifts in the Kingdom of Nangchen -- Chapter 10 "By Ancient Custom and Engagements": Trade, Taxes and Diplomacy in Ladakh and Western Tibet between the 17th and 20th Centuries |
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Chapter 11 Taxes and Corvées in the Manorial and Monastic Estates of Zangskar (Western Himalayas) -- Chapter 12 The Fiscal Status of Buddhist and Bönpo Institutions in Mustang (Nepal): A Historical Overview -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schwieger, Schwieger
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Ramble, Charles
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| ISBN |
9789004529465 |
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9004529462 |
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