<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Dear Randy, <br><br>The Ladakh project is still very much around. <br><br><a href="http://www.localfutures.org/">http://www.localfutures.org/</a><br><br></div>The founder, an MIT trained linguist, is Helena Norberg-Hodge. She came out with a Ladakhi dictionary many years ago. <br>

<br>Ladakhi English English Ladakhi : dictionary<br>by Helena Norberg-Hodge; <br>Leh: The Ladakh Ecological Development Group, 1991.<br><br></div>Those interested may also want to know about SECMOL an education charity in Ladakh. <br>

<br><a href="http://www.secmol.org/index.php">http://www.secmol.org/index.php</a><br><br></div>Their publication arm, Melong, has the following two books. <br><br>Getting Started in Ladakhi. Rebecca Norman. Leh, Ladakh: Melong Publications (2001).<br>

<br>Ladakhi—English—Urdu Dictionary with an English-Ladakhi index. Abdul Hamid. Leh, Ladakh: Melong Publications (1998).<br><br></div>Rebecca Norman also has a draft dictionary that is much larger. <br><br><br><div><div>
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<br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">Dr Nathan W. Hill<br>Lecturer in Tibetan and Linguistics<br>Department of China & Inner Asia and Department of Linguistics<br>SOAS, University of London <br>

Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK<br>Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4220<br>--<br>Profile -- <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff46254.php" target="_blank">http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff46254.php</a><br>

Tibetan Studies at SOAS -- <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/cia/tibetanstudies/" target="_blank">http://www.soas.ac.uk/cia/tibetanstudies/</a><br>--</div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Randy LaPolla <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:randy.lapolla@gmail.com" target="_blank">randy.lapolla@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Speaking of Ladakh, many years ago (1980's) at Berkeley I heard a woman give a talk on "The Ladakhi Project", which was an attempt to get the people in Ladakh to stop moving toward a petroleum-based economy, and to help them go back to a self-sustaining economy with things such as solar stoves and whatnot. The project included writing a dictionary of the language. Does anyone know what happened to that project?<div>

<br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Randy</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><div>On 28 Jul, 2014, at 2:55 pm, Gerald Roche <<a href="mailto:gjroche@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank">gjroche@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br>

<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">Dear all,
</span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">The
editors of <i>Asian Highlands Perspectives</i>
are pleased to announce the publication of:</span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">AHP 31: The Lost World of Ladakh: Early Photographic Journeys through Indian Himalaya, 1931-1934</span></i></p>

<div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">By Rupert
Wilmot, Roger Bates, and Nicky Harman, with a Foreword by </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">Khenpo
K. Rangdol, President of Tserkarmo Monastery, Ladakh, India.</span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">The Lost World of
Ladakh</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> is a
superb collection of 150 black-and-white photographs of 1930s Ladakh, capturing
its final days as a hub of trade routes between Tibet and Kashmir, India and
Yarkand. These portraits of people, landscapes and Buddhist ceremonies taken by
amateur photographer Rupert Wilmot, are notable for their careful composition,
fine detail and engaging informality. They have been meticulously researched
and captioned by <a name="1477c5036e7e897c_OLE_LINK6"></a><a name="1477c5036e7e897c_OLE_LINK5"><span>Nicky Harman </span></a><span>and Roger Bates, respectively, niece and nephew of Rupert
Wilmot, and include maps, an introduction and a bibliography. Of considerable
historical and ethnographic interest.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">The volume is available as an at-cost hard copy (28.29USD):</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/roger-bates-and-nicky-harman-and-rupert-wilmot/ahp-31-the-lost-world-of-ladakh-early-photographic-journeys-in-indian-himalaya/paperback/product-21733172.html" target="_blank">http://www.lulu.com/shop/roger-bates-and-nicky-harman-and-rupert-wilmot/ahp-31-the-lost-world-of-ladakh-early-photographic-journeys-in-indian-himalaya/paperback/product-21733172.html</a></span></p>

<div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">…and as a free download:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"><a href="http://plateauculture.org/sites/plateauculture.org/files/writing/lost-world-ladakh-early-photographic-journeys-indian-himalaya.pdf" target="_blank">http://plateauculture.org/sites/plateauculture.org/files/writing/lost-world-ladakh-early-photographic-journeys-indian-himalaya.pdf</a></span></p>

<div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">…with an additional appendix:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"><a href="http://plateauculture.org/writing/appendix-lost-world-ladakh" target="_blank">http://plateauculture.org/writing/appendix-lost-world-ladakh</a>
</span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span><br></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">What other writers have said about
<i>The Lost World of Ladakh</i>:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">“A wonderfully elegaic set of photographs
recording a lost world: an almost mediaeval Ladakh  untouched by modernity
and still living at the hub of the old trans-Himalayan trade routes, a timeless
Central Asia where soot writing boards, itinerant monks, arcane astrologers,
masked dancers and elaborate turquoise headdresses were </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">still common. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">These skillfully restored
photographs make me ache to cross again the snowy heights of the Zoji-la and to
re-visit this most fascinating region to see what is left.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">William
Dalrymple, </span></i><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-GB">author of  </span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-GB">Return
of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42</span><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"></span></i></p><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">

<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">“Rupert Wilmot’s pictures are a delight. The
monastery images include a spectacular set of the religious dance-drama at
Hemis. There is also a visual record of the trades that lifted so many of
Ladakh's villagers above the poverty level: the bustle in Leh Bazaar, the
interior of a serai, and caravans of sheep, donkeys and ponies. Perhaps the
book’s most outstanding feature is the series of portraits of Wilmot’s
fellow-travellers and other Ladakhis, most of them in relaxed and cheerful
mode, rather than posing stiffly.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">Dr Janet
Rizvi, writer and historian of Ladakh, Kashmir and the western Himalaya </span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">“These illustrations, superb as photographs in
their own right, capture in visual form the essence of Ladakhi life as it was
in the 1930s.  While the Ladakh pictured
here is in many ways gone, its legacy lives on in the distinctive culture of
present-day Ladakh, which cannot be fully appreciated without a knowledge of
its history.  In this book we have a
unique and vital contribution to that history.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">Dr Philip Denwood,
Emeritus Reader in Tibetan Studies, SOAS, University of London</span></i></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia" lang="EN-GB">Claude
Rupert Trench Wilmot (1897-1961) was a British army officer stationed in India
during the 1930s, and a talented amateur photographer. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"></span></p><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span><br></div>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">Nicky Harman translates Chinese literature,
and was formerly a lecturer at Imperial College London.</span></p><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">Roger Bates digitized the photographs. A retired engineer, he has
many years of experience working in digital photography</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia">.</span></p>

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