Taxation in Tibetan Societies: Rules, Practices and Discourses

Taxation in Tibetan Societies: Rules, Practices and Discourses

Travers, Alice; Ramble, Charles; Schwieger, Peter

Brill

01/2023

388

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Inglês

9789004518339

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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 Corvee 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 Corvees in the Manorial and Monastic Estates of Zangskar (Western Himalayas)

?Isabelle Riaboff



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

?Charles Ramble



Index
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Buddhism; Ganden Phodrang; Tibet; Tibetan; administration; archival sources; autobiography; collecting; corvée service; government; history; institutional; labour organisation; law; social; state; taxation