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The Politics Of Fertility: Population And Pronatalism In Ladakh, Jennifer Aengst
The Politics Of Fertility: Population And Pronatalism In Ladakh, Jennifer Aengst
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
In India’s northwestern region of Ladakh, the linkage between reproduction, politics, and fertility is both complicated and contested, evident in increasing population discourses and the re-emergence of a Buddhist pronatalist movement. This paper examines the impacts of population discourses and pronatalism on women’s reproductive decision-making, as well as on the delivery of healthcare throughout Ladakh. Population discourses currently circulating produce two reproductive subjects—the “hyper-fertile Muslim woman” and the “vulnerable Buddhist”—both of which have been central in revitalizing Buddhist pronatalism. Data collected through a hospital-based survey and interviews shows that fertility behavior is shaped by religious interpretations, political mobilization, and pressure …
Review Of The Everest Effect: Nature, Culture, Ideology By Elizabeth Mazzolini, Jolynna Sinanan
Review Of The Everest Effect: Nature, Culture, Ideology By Elizabeth Mazzolini, Jolynna Sinanan
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of Routledge Handbook Of Asian Borderlands, Edited By Alexander Horstmann And Martin Saxer And Alessandro Rippa, Nadine Plachta
Review Of Routledge Handbook Of Asian Borderlands, Edited By Alexander Horstmann And Martin Saxer And Alessandro Rippa, Nadine Plachta
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
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Review Of Trading Caterpillar Fungus In Tibet: When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area By Emilia Roza Sulek, Geoff Childs
Review Of Trading Caterpillar Fungus In Tibet: When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area By Emilia Roza Sulek, Geoff Childs
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
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On Elsewhereness: Notes From The Road, 2016, Uzma Falak
On Elsewhereness: Notes From The Road, 2016, Uzma Falak
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
The Indian state’s war-on-many-fronts against the people of Kashmir through its several occupational structures, entails among other things, a stringent regulation of affect, perception management and narrative control. The repetitive brutality and violence engenders unmitigated suffering which destroys language but also ‘writes’ itself through its own unspeakability, even as memory is torn asunder and memorialisation becomes arduous. On Elsewhereness attempts to restore the disrupted itineraries of memory and language without invisibilizing the disruptions and seeks to retrieve the singularity of acts of violence; challenging the state’s regulation of affect by producing and circulating an alternate people’s affect. Through a poetic …
Translating Loss – Reading Translation As Resistance, Huzaifa Pandit
Translating Loss – Reading Translation As Resistance, Huzaifa Pandit
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
The act of translation is not a linear and static process but a circulatory and dynamic process that permits an enriching negotiation of meaning. One of the ways in which a text can be translated is by trusting that its meaning can be employed outside the local contexts in which it was produced, and employed to comment on contexts far removed from it in time and space. This trusting then allows for the translated texts to intervene in the negotiations between poly-systems, as marginal poly-systems seek a more pronounced space in the literary and cultural networks in a particular space. …
Economics Of Kashmir Conflict, Bilal A. Pandow
Economics Of Kashmir Conflict, Bilal A. Pandow
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
In a political conflict like Kashmir, human loss is the first tragedy coupled with the economic damage to the oppressed class. Repeated shutdowns that include curfews and protests have dented the economy of Kashmir, a fact that is irrefutable. However, this is supplemented by the ‘normalcy period’ that paves way for the economic captivity of the region. The Narendra Modi government’s decision to abrogate Article 370, which guaranteed a special status to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) under the Indian constitution, and divide the J&K state into two separate Union Territories on 05 August 2019 has already immensely dented the local …
Fear And Othering In Delhi: Assessing Non-Belonging Of Kashmiri Muslims, Charlotte Thomas
Fear And Othering In Delhi: Assessing Non-Belonging Of Kashmiri Muslims, Charlotte Thomas
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This contribution aims at assessing to what extent does the fact of living in New Delhi influence the Kashmiri Muslims’ sense of a national belonging to India. Non-belongingness is appraised through the study of Kashmiri Muslims’ emotions and perceptions towards New Delhi, that is to say the territory and the inhabitants of the capital city of India. Living in New Delhi nurtures an othering process between Kashmiri Muslims and the non-Kashmiri Muslim Delhiite society. The contribution analyses this process as a two-way dynamic wherein both the groups are at stake. In the same vein, non-belongingness also appears to be an …
The Dull Pain Of Simmering Anger: Affective And Emotional Experiences Among Displaced Kashmiri Pandits, Ankur Datta
The Dull Pain Of Simmering Anger: Affective And Emotional Experiences Among Displaced Kashmiri Pandits, Ankur Datta
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
The displacement of the Kashmiri Pandits, the Hindu minority of the Kashmir valley, following the insurgency remains a controversial event in the region, especially with regards to the cause of their ‘exodus.’ While the Pandits have lived since then in Jammu, New Delhi and elsewhere, remaking their lives that were disrupted in displacement, they inhabit a complex political location. Pandit political expression, especially for those outside Kashmir, is framed in opposition to Kashmiri nationalism and in line with Indian nationalism in its various forms, including Hindu nationalist politics. This paper attempts to understand Pandit victimhood in relation to their emotional …
What About InsāNiyat? Morality And Ethics In The Pahars Of Kashmir, Omer Aijazi
What About InsāNiyat? Morality And Ethics In The Pahars Of Kashmir, Omer Aijazi
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
What about insāniyat (humanity)? Or put differently, how are morality and ethics compelled and shaped in the pahars (mountainscapes) of Kashmir? insāniyat is an emotion and ethics that expresses interdependencies between people. Insāniyat is moral and ethical proclivity. It is not enforced by an external authority but inheres in human encounters. I explore the question of insāniyat with the help of Qari Safr, a village Imam in the pahars of Neelum valley of Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Devoted to the circulation of an Islamic-informed integrity of life, I read Qari Safr’s aspirations for himself and his community as extensions of wider struggles …
Everyday Suffocations, Smells And Sounds Of Jung: Ethnography Of Tear Gas In Downtown Srinagar, Bhavneet Kaur
Everyday Suffocations, Smells And Sounds Of Jung: Ethnography Of Tear Gas In Downtown Srinagar, Bhavneet Kaur
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This paper traces the insidious movement of tear gas shells from the site of jung (Kashmiri reference for stone-pelting, more directly referred to as Kanni Jung) to intimate spaces of homes, interrogating the world of unabated military violence in Downtown Srinagar. It delineates the sensate world of political conflict through the precarious social life of people and their multi-layered relationship with forms of military control, particularly tear gas shells1. In trying to capture the inbetween-ness of toxic tear gas—between striking protestors on the road and permeating inside homes, between explosion and diffusion— I ask: how does this “non-lethal” (Graham 2010: …
Giving God Glory: How Christian Tharus Negotiate Belonging Through Ritual Music In Nepal, Victoria M. Dalzell
Giving God Glory: How Christian Tharus Negotiate Belonging Through Ritual Music In Nepal, Victoria M. Dalzell
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
In Nepal, ethnicity is often constituted through ritual practice. If ritual participation is a key way of exercising membership in an ethnic group, how might Christians--who no longer participate in many community rituals--demonstrate their belonging in ethnic communities? In this article, I argue that modifying traditional songs and dances for a church context is one way that Christian Tharus continue to identify with their ethnic communities within a multicultural Christian community. I examine two Christian Tharu performances: performing the huri nāc (a Kathariya Tharu song and dance genre performed during Holi) at interchurch events and arranging an original, Nepali-language hymn …
Review Of Kathmandu By Thomas Bell, Heather Hindman
Review Of Kathmandu By Thomas Bell, Heather Hindman
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Battle For Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, And Power Among Tibetans In China By Charlene Makley, Andrew Grant
Review Of The Battle For Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, And Power Among Tibetans In China By Charlene Makley, Andrew Grant
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed: Return To Tarang. By James F. Fisher, Maya Daurio
Review Of Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed: Return To Tarang. By James F. Fisher, Maya Daurio
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of Ethnicity And Democracy In The Eastern Himalayan Borderland: Constructing Democracy By Mona Chettri, Aadil Brar
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
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Association For Asian Studies Annual Conference, Nadine Plachta
Association For Asian Studies Annual Conference, Nadine Plachta
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
2019 Annual Kathmandu Conference On Nepal And The Himalaya, Pearly Wong
2019 Annual Kathmandu Conference On Nepal And The Himalaya, Pearly Wong
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
The Heritage Buddhist Manuscripts Of Ladakh Tibetan Buddhist Canons And The Perfection Of Wisdom Sutra, Georgios T . Halkias
The Heritage Buddhist Manuscripts Of Ladakh Tibetan Buddhist Canons And The Perfection Of Wisdom Sutra, Georgios T . Halkias
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
The history of the earliest transmission of Indian Buddhism to Tibet in the 7th– 8thcenturies is in essence the story of the transmission of its scriptures. Tibetan translations of Sanskrit texts from the early imperial period, along with manuscripts translated from the 11thcentury onwards, contributed to the formation of Buddhist scriptural collections. Today different versions of the Tibetan Kangyur survive in the interior and at the margins of the Tibetan cultural world. This Perspectives piece serves as a modest introduction to the illustrated Prajñāpāramitā manuscripts and handwritten Buddhist canons preserved in the Indian north-western Himalayas. Their further study will undoubtedly …
The Negotiation Of Religious Identity Of Muslim Women In Leh District, Ladakh, Samina Rehman
The Negotiation Of Religious Identity Of Muslim Women In Leh District, Ladakh, Samina Rehman
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This paper examines the negotiation of religious identity among Sunni Muslim women in Leh, Ladakh. Although Muslims in Leh share the same socio-cultural environment with Buddhists, the differences between the two communities have become more pronounced in recent decades. The assertion of religious identity and increasing religiosity in the form of vegetarianism among Buddhists and strict veiling among Muslim women are fairly visible. Changes are also seen in religious practices, including the imposition of a strict prohibition on dance, music, and alcohol consumption among Muslims. Here, I explore the manner in which religious identity is perceived and propagated among Muslim …
The Sacred And The Secular: Exploring Mass Tourism Encounters At Lamayuru Monastery In Ladakh, Tashi Lundup
The Sacred And The Secular: Exploring Mass Tourism Encounters At Lamayuru Monastery In Ladakh, Tashi Lundup
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This paper is an attempt to understand and conceptualize tourism and changing monastic space in Ladakh with special reference to the Lamayuru monastery. The study adopts a qualitative ethnographic approach, drawing on participant observation as well as interviews with both monks and tourists. It shows how local monastic culture has been reconstructed as a marketable commodity for tourist consumption and explores the tensions that arise from the use of the same monastic space for both religious and secular purposes. The monks’ views in relation to the changing context of tourism at the Lamayuru monastery reflect a dual perspective, representing both …
When Buddhism Meets Bollywood: The Naropa 2016 Festival In Ladakh, India, Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg
When Buddhism Meets Bollywood: The Naropa 2016 Festival In Ladakh, India, Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
In September 2016, hundreds of thousands of devotees gathered in Ladakh to celebrate the millennial anniversary of Naropa (1016- 1100 CE), an Indian Buddhist scholar-saint who is widely revered in the Himalayas. Deemed ‘Naropa 2016,’ this Himalayan Buddhist festival centered on the ritual of na ro gyen druk (Tib. na ro rgyan drug), the ‘Six Bone Ornaments of Naropa.’ What was announced as a sacred Buddhist ritual of revealing these ornaments, also included evening performances by renowned Bollywood performers with booming sound and impressive light shows enjoyed by large crowds of monks and laity until late in the night. This …
Manepa In Ladakh: The Revival Of A Religious Tradition, Pascale Dollfus
Manepa In Ladakh: The Revival Of A Religious Tradition, Pascale Dollfus
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Among Buddhist religious specialists in Ladakh, there were until recently people called manepa, the Ladakhi pronunciation of the Tibetan word manipa, literally ‘the one [who recites] mani’. In the western Himalayas the repertoire of these non-monastic practitioners not only contains the famous mantra dedicated to the Great Compassion Bodhisattva Chenrezi (Skt. Avalokiteśvara), but also dozens of biographies which imply liberation in the Buddhist sense of the word and which praise the victory of Dharma over heretics. The Masters of the mani mantra are tantrists who regard the fourteenth-century Tibetan saint Thangtong Gyalpo as their founding preceptor. Among other skills, they …
Rahul Sankrityayan, Tsetan Phuntsog And Tibetan Textbooks For Ladakh In 1933, John Bray, Martijn Van Beek, Tsering Gonkatsang, Phuntsok Wangchuk
Rahul Sankrityayan, Tsetan Phuntsog And Tibetan Textbooks For Ladakh In 1933, John Bray, Martijn Van Beek, Tsering Gonkatsang, Phuntsok Wangchuk
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
In 1933 the Indian scholar and social activist Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963) compiled a set of four Tibetan-language readers and a grammar for use in Ladakhi schools, together with his Ladakhi colleague Tsetan Phuntsog. The readers contain a mix of material from Western, Indian, Ladakhi and Tibetan sources. This includes simple essays about ‘air’ and ‘water’, selections from Aesop’s fables, Indian folk stories, biographies of famous people in Ladakhi and Tibetan history, poems by Ladakhi authors, and extracts from the Treasury of Elegant Sayings by Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen (1182-1251). This essay begins with a review of earlier Tibetan-language schoolbooks published …
Introduction | Religion And Social Change In Ladakh, John Bray, Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, Rafał Beszterda
Introduction | Religion And Social Change In Ladakh, John Bray, Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, Rafał Beszterda
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Impacts Of Yartsa Gunbu Harvesting On Alpine Ecosystems In The Barun Valley, Makalu-Barun National Park, Nepal, Alton C. Byers, Elizabeth Byers, Milan Shrestha, Dambar Thapa, Bidhya Sharma
Impacts Of Yartsa Gunbu Harvesting On Alpine Ecosystems In The Barun Valley, Makalu-Barun National Park, Nepal, Alton C. Byers, Elizabeth Byers, Milan Shrestha, Dambar Thapa, Bidhya Sharma
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Around 2003, the highly valuable medicinal fungi Ophiocordyceps sinensis (Nepali: yartsa gunbu) began to be commercially harvested in the remote Barun valley of the Makalu-Barun National Park and Buffer Zone, eastern Nepal. Since then, an estimated 3,000 collectors per year have visited the valley each harvesting season, placing new pressures upon its subalpine and alpine landscapes. A review of the yartsa gunbu literature suggested that its harvesting throughout highland India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China has brought important economic benefits, but that it has often been accompanied by a corresponding increase in negative environmental impacts such as alpine shrub destruction, wildlife …
Historicizing The Emergence Of Global Mental Health In Nepal (1950-2019), Aidan Seale-Feldman
Historicizing The Emergence Of Global Mental Health In Nepal (1950-2019), Aidan Seale-Feldman
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This article traces a genealogy of mental health governance in Nepal as it was constituted in and through an assemblage of historical events, local politics, personal relationships and trends in the field of global health development. The relation between health development and local politics in Nepal is explored across four periods in the history of global health: 1) the early health development programs of disease eradication after the end of the Rana oligarchy (1951-1970); 2) the turn to primary health care during the Panchayat (1970-1990); 3) the rise of NGOs and the People’s War (1990-2010); and 4) the return to …
Youth Political Engagement And Democratic Culture In Republican Nepal, Tom O'Neill, Bijaya Raj Poudel, Nabin Maharjan
Youth Political Engagement And Democratic Culture In Republican Nepal, Tom O'Neill, Bijaya Raj Poudel, Nabin Maharjan
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Nepal’s transformation from an autocratic monarchy to a democratic republic presupposes the development of democratic institutions, and the current generation of Nepali youth, particularly those in higher education, are uniquely situated in that process. As such Nepali youth constitute a distinct generation along the lines specified by Karl Mannheim and others. In the past efforts to mobilize Nepalese youth have been aimed at integrating them as useful assets in the service of Nepalese political institutions, such as political student unions, but in this paper, based on fieldwork and interview data collected in 2013 and 2016, we argue that politically active …
The Vulnerable State And Technical Fixes: An Analysis Of Official Climate Change Discourses In Nepal, Pearly Wong
The Vulnerable State And Technical Fixes: An Analysis Of Official Climate Change Discourses In Nepal, Pearly Wong
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
I conduct discourse analysis of seven selected official climate change policies and documents of Nepal. In the first part of my analysis, I draw from international climate justice discourses to analyze how policy makers construct Nepal’s position in the global arena, in relation to the issue of climate change. In the second part, I draw from political ecology and anthropological understandings of ‘vulnerability’ and ‘adaptation’ to analyze how policy makers construct those terms in the context of Nepal. The result shows that Nepal has adhered to the ‘vulnerability’ and ‘transition’ discourses, which serve as important tools to advocate for financial …
Review Of Sucāruvādadeśika: A Festschrift Honoring Professor Theodore Riccardi Edited By Todd Lewis And Bruce Mccoy Owens., Bal Gopal Shrestha
Review Of Sucāruvādadeśika: A Festschrift Honoring Professor Theodore Riccardi Edited By Todd Lewis And Bruce Mccoy Owens., Bal Gopal Shrestha
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.