A Journey To Lake Mansarovara In Undes A Province Of Tibet

Author : William Moorcroft
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Lake Mansarovara (Tibet (China))
ISBN : 8121201012

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A Journey to Lake Mansarovara, in Undes, a Province of Tibet by William Moorcroft Pdf

A Journey to Lake Mansarovara is an attempt to acquaint the readers with the lake mansarovara, the place of much reverence and attraction due to its several unique qualities and scenic beauties. The present book is reproduction of the duly edited story of an adventurous journey undertaken by the author (narrator) himself to the lake mansarovara. To start with a band of three persons sets out on journey with good and pious motives to explore the unique and landscapic beauties of the lake with which it is gifted and to know about the inhabitants residing there intact of the society, They go on their journey enthusiastically but ungrudgingly, arrive at different places, big and small cross many cliffs and mountains facing the hardships as well as narrating the incidents they frequently came across. Briefly the book throws light on the courageous mood of the odyssey-makers, the landscapic beauties of the high mountains covered with snow, rivers having swift cold and clear water. It is, in fact, rich with vast collection of knowledge related to socio-economic and political aspects of the inhabitants in the mountains. Since the study provides a panoramic and vivid description of the Lake Mansarovara and its surroundings, it would certainly enthrall the readers and captivate their attention.

Author : Christoph Bergmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319297071

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The Himalayan Border Region by Christoph Bergmann Pdf

Drawing from extensive archival work and long-term ethnographic research, this book focuses on the so-called Bhotiyas, former trans-Himalayan traders and a Scheduled Tribe of India who reside in several high valleys of the Kumaon Himalaya. The area is located in the border triangle between India, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR, People’s Republic of China), and Nepal, where contestations over political boundaries have created multiple challenges as well as opportunities for local mountain communities. Based on an analytical framework that is grounded in and contributes to recent advances in the field of border studies, the author explores how the Bhotiyas have used their agency to develop a flourishing trans-Himalayan trade under British colonial influence; to assert an identity and win legal recognition as a tribal community in the political setup of independent India; and to innovate their pastoral mobility in the context of ongoing state and market reforms. By examining the Bhotiyas’ trade, identity and mobility this book shows how and why the Himalayan border region has evolved as an agentive site of political action for a variety of different actors.

Author : Nilesh D. Nathwani
Publisher : New Age Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Kailas, Mount (China)
ISBN : 8178220547

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Kailash Mansarovar by Nilesh D. Nathwani Pdf

This profusely illustrated travelogue is a tale about fancies and fears, adventures and aspirations, expectations and disillusions, escapes and retreats experienced by a team of adventurous pilgrims. This is a story of an unforgettable odyssey to the holy Mount Kailash and the sacred Mansarovar describing mysteries connected with the land capturing the intangible air of faith and pilgrimage. This travelogue takes us on a journey to the wild, seldom travelled northern route visiting the remote cities, towns and monsteries of mysterious Tibet. It is a gripping story of pilgrims who aspire to see Gods living in the wilderness of the remote holy land. This is an engrossing, touching and remarkable account of a picturesque travel with nice imagery describing majestic mountains, turquoise lakes and virgin rivers of Tibet. Written in a brilliant style, it is a dramatic record that succeeds in imparting onto the readers some of the intensely experienced emotions that will remain long in memory. This book has been included in the Tibetan Travel Classics, Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi, India and Pilgrims Book House, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Author : Julie Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134327850

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Britain and Tibet 1765-1947 by Julie Marshall Pdf

This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period from 1765 to 1947. It also provides background information to Tibet's claims to independence, an issue of current importance. The work is divided into a number of sections and subsections, based on chronology, geography and events. The introductions to each of the sections provide a condensed and informative history of the period and place the books and articles in their historical context. This work is both a history and a bibliography of the subject, and provides a rapid entry into a complex area for scholars in the fields of international relations and military history as well as Asian history.

Author : Julie G. Marshall
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415336473

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Britain and Tibet 1765-1947 by Julie G. Marshall Pdf

This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period 1765 to 1947. As such it also involves British relations with Russia and China, and with the Himalayan states of Ladakh, Lahul and Spiti, Kumaon and Garhwal, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam, in so far as British policy towards these states was affected by her desire to establish relations with Tibet. It also covers a subject of some importance in contemporary diplomacy. It was the legacy of unresolved problems concerning Tibet and its borders, bequeathed to India by Britain in 1947, which led to border disputes and ultimately to war between India and China in 1962. These borders are still in dispute today. It also provides background information to Tibet's claims to independence, an issue of current importance. The work is divided into a number of sections and subsections, based on chronology, geography and events. The introductions to each of the sections provide a condensed and informative history of the period and place the books and article in their historical context. Most entries are also annotated. This work is therefore both a history and a bibliography of the subject, and provides a rapid entry into a complex area for scholars in the fields of international relations and military history as well as Asian history.

Author : Hermann Kreutzmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400738461

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Pastoral practices in High Asia by Hermann Kreutzmann Pdf

In conventional views, pastoralism was classified as a stage of civilization that needed to be abolished and transcended in order to reach a higher level of development. In this context, global approaches to modernize a rural society have been ubiquitous phenomena independent of ideological contexts. The 20th century experienced a variety of concepts to settle mobile groups and to transfer their lifestyles to modern perceptions. Permanent settlements are the vivid expression of an ideology-driven approach. Modernization theory captured all walks of life and tried to optimize breeding techniques, pasture utilization, transport and processing concepts. New insights into other aspects of pastoralism such as its role as an adaptive strategy to use marginal resources in remote locations with difficult access could only be understood as a critique of capitalist and communist concepts of modernization. In recent years a renaissance of modernization theory-led development activities can be observed. Higher inputs from external funding, fencing of pastures and settlement of pastoralists in new townships are the vivid expression of 'modern' pastoralism in urban contexts. The new modernization programme incorporates resettlement and transformation of lifestyles as to be justified by environmental pressure in order to reduce degradation in the age of climate change.

Author : Dhirendra Sharma
Publisher : Educreation Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Uncharted Lifes Journey by Dhirendra Sharma Pdf

Truth is One that is described differently. (Upanishads). Social Activist author of this story spent years discussing Philosophy with the Vedantic scholars in ashrams, Lamaseries and with Bishops and the Catholic monks in the Austro--Swiss Alps.

Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Indian & World Geography (General Studies Volume-2) by YCT Expert Team Pdf

2022-23 All IAS/PCS General Studies Volume-2 Indian & World Geography Chapter-wise Solved Papers

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004412477

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Connecting Territories by Anonim Pdf

The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories. Contributors are: Sarah Baumgartner, Simona Boscani Leoni, Stefanie Gänger, Meike Knittel, Francesco Luzzini, Jon Mathieu, Barbara Orland, Irina Podgorny, Chetan Singh, and Martin Stuber.

Author : Erika Fatland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781639363377

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High by Erika Fatland Pdf

An ambitious and magnificent new travelogue by bestselling and prize-winning author Erika Fatland (The Border and Sovietistan), on a journey along the Himalaya. The Himalaya weave through five very different countries, where the world religions of Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism are mixed with ancient shamanic religions. Countless languages and vastly different cultures live in the secluded mountain valleys. Modernity and tradition collide, while the great powers fight for influence. We have read about mountain climbers on their way up Mount Everest and about travellers on the spiritual quest for Buddhist monasteries. But how much do we know about the people living in the Himalaya? Fatland invites us into close encounters with the many peoples of the region, and at the same time takes us on a dizzying journey at altitude through incredible landscapes and dramatic, unknown world histories - all the way to the most volatile human conflicts of our times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015078245605

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Encyclopedia of World Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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2024-25 IAS/PSC General Studies Indian & World Geography by YCT Expert Team Pdf

2024-25 IAS/PSC General Studies Indian & World Geography

Author : Stephen Alter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628725421

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Becoming a Mountain by Stephen Alter Pdf

Hailed as a "wondrous book" by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature—a journey of healing that becomes a pilgrimage for the soul. Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife, Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their house and viciously attacked them, leaving them for dead. The violent assault and the trauma of almost dying left him questioning assumptions he had lived by since childhood. For the first time, he encountered the face of evil and the terror of the unknown. He felt like a foreigner in the land of his birth. This book is his account of a series of treks he took in the high Himalayas following his convalescence—to Bandar Punch (the monkey’s tail), Nanda Devi, the second highest mountain in India, and Mt. Kailash in Tibet. He set himself this goal to prove that he had healed mentally as well as physically and to re-knit his connection to his homeland. Undertaken out of sorrow, the treks become a moving soul journey, a way to rediscover mountains in his inner landscape. Weaving together observations of the natural world, Himalayan history, folklore and mythology, as well as encounters with other pilgrims along the way, Stephen Alter has given us a moving meditation on the solace of high places, and on the hidden meanings and enduring mystery of mountains.

Author : Bernard S. Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:49015002906049

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Encyclopedia of World Art by Bernard S. Myers Pdf

Subject matter consists of representational arts in the broadest sense, architecture, sculpture, painting, and other man-made objects with no limits as to time, place, or cultural environment.

Author : Gray Tuttle,Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231144681

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The Tibetan History Reader by Gray Tuttle,Kurtis R. Schaeffer Pdf

Answering a critical need for an accurate, in-depth history of Tibet, this single-volume resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies. Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, the volume is organized chronologically and regionally to complement courses in Asian and religious studies and world civilizations. Beginning with Tibet's emergence as a regional power and concluding with its profound contemporary transformations, this anthology offers both a general and ..