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Taxation in Tibetan Societies: Rules, Practices and Discourses

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-90-04-51833-9
Verlag: Brill
Erscheinungstermin: 26.01.2023
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The study of taxation is fundamental for understanding the construction of Tibetan polities, the nature of their power – often with a marked religious component – and their relationships with their subjects, as well as the consequences of taxation for social stratification.

This volume takes the analysis of taxation in Tibetan societies (both under the Ganden Phodrang and beyond it) in new directions, using hitherto unexploited Tibetan-language sources. It pursues the dual objective of advancing our understanding of the organisation of taxation from an institutional perspective and of highlighting the ways in which taxpayers themselves experienced and represented these fiscal systems.

Contributors are Saadet Arslan, John Bray, Kalsang Norbu Gurung, Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Berthe Jansen, Diana Lange, Nancy E. Levine, Charles Ramble, Isabelle Riaboff, Peter Schwieger, Alice Travers, and Maria M. Turek.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9789004518339
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-90-04-51833-9
  • Verlag: Brill
  • Erscheinungstermin: 26.01.2023
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2023
  • Serie: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 791 g
  • Seiten: 388
  • Format (B x H): 155 x 235 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Contents

Note on the Transliteration and Transcription of Tibetan Names and Terms

List of Figures and Maps

List of Tables

Introduction

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

Peter Schwieger

2 A Perspective on the Ganden Phodrang’s Administration of Taxation in the 19th and 20th Centuries Based on Archival Sources

Kalsang Norbu Gurung

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

Alice Travers

4 Traditional Taxation Systems in Western Tibet: A Comparative Perspective

Nancy E. Levine

5 Lam Yig—An Official Document Granting Travel Privileges in Tibet

Saadet Arslan

6 “My Karma Selected Me to Become A Ferryman”: The Role of Waterways and Watercraft in the Corvée Tax System in Pre-1959 Tibet

Diana Lange

7 Performing Tibetan Opera As Khral in the First Half of the 20th Century: In Principle a “Tax”, in Experience a Pervasive Obligation

Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy

8 A Preliminary Investigation Into Monk-Tax: The Concept of Grwa Khral/Btsun Khral/Ban Khral and Its Meanings

Berthe Jansen

9 Monastic Obligations, Hat Change and Lhasa Encroachment Taxation Rights Among Politico-Religious Shifts in the Kingdom of Nangchen

M. Maria Turek

10 “By Ancient Custom and Engagements”: Trade, Taxes and Diplomacy in Ladakh and Western Tibet between the 17th and 20th Centuries

John Bray

11 Taxes and Corvées in the Manorial and Monastic Estates of Zangskar (Western Himalayas)

Isabelle Riaboff

12 The Fiscal Status of Buddh1ist and Bönpo Institutions in Mustang (Nepal): A Historical Overview

Charles Ramble

Index