New from Asian Highlands Perspectives - AHP 31: The Lost World of Ladakh: Early Photographic Journeys through Indian Himalaya, 1931-1934

[Nathan Hill]

Dear Randy,

The Ladakh project is still very much around.

http://www.localfutures.org/

The founder, an MIT trained linguist, is Helena Norberg-Hodge. She came out
with a Ladakhi dictionary many years ago.

Ladakhi English English Ladakhi : dictionary
by Helena Norberg-Hodge;
Leh: The Ladakh Ecological Development Group, 1991.

Those interested may also want to know about SECMOL an education charity in
Ladakh.

http://www.secmol.org/index.php

Their publication arm, Melong, has the following two books.

Getting Started in Ladakhi. Rebecca Norman. Leh, Ladakh: Melong
Publications (2001).

Ladakhi—English—Urdu Dictionary with an English-Ladakhi index. Abdul Hamid.
Leh, Ladakh: Melong Publications (1998).

Rebecca Norman also has a draft dictionary that is much larger.





Dr Nathan W. Hill
Lecturer in Tibetan and Linguistics
Department of China & Inner Asia and Department of Linguistics
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Randy LaPolla <randy.lapolla at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Randy
>
> On 28 Jul, 2014, at 2:55 pm, Gerald Roche <gjroche at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
>
> The editors of *Asian Highlands Perspectives* are pleased to announce the
> publication of:
>
>
> *AHP 31: The Lost World of Ladakh: Early Photographic Journeys through
> Indian Himalaya, 1931-1934*
>
>
> By Rupert Wilmot, Roger Bates, and Nicky Harman, with a Foreword by Khenpo
> K. Rangdol, President of Tserkarmo Monastery, Ladakh, India.
>
>
> *The Lost World of Ladakh* 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 Nicky Harman and Roger Bates, respectively, niece and nephew of Rupert
> Wilmot, and include maps, an introduction and a bibliography. Of
> considerable historical and ethnographic interest.
>
>
> The volume is available as an at-cost hard copy (28.29USD):
>
>
> 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
>
>
> …and as a free download:
>
>
> http://plateauculture.org/sites/plateauculture.org/files/writing/lost-world-ladakh-early-photographic-journeys-indian-himalaya.pdf
>
>
> …with an additional appendix:
>
> http://plateauculture.org/writing/appendix-lost-world-ladakh
>
>
>
> *What other writers have said about The Lost World of Ladakh:*
>
> “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 still common. 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.”
>
> *William Dalrymple, **author of  *Return of a King: The Battle for
> Afghanistan, 1839-42
>
>
> “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.”
>
> *Dr Janet Rizvi, writer and historian of Ladakh, Kashmir and the western
> Himalaya *
>
>
>
> “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.”
>
> *Dr Philip Denwood, Emeritus Reader in Tibetan Studies, SOAS, University
> of London*
>
>
> Claude Rupert Trench Wilmot (1897-1961) was a British army officer
> stationed in India during the 1930s, and a talented amateur photographer.
>
>
> Nicky Harman translates Chinese literature, and was formerly a lecturer at
> Imperial College London.
>
>
> Roger Bates digitized the photographs. A retired engineer, he has many
> years of experience working in digital photography.
>
>
>
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