Taxation in Tibetan Societies.

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library ; v.53
• Author: Travers, Alice.
• TeilnehmendeR: Schwieger, Schwieger.; Ramble, Charles.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 pages)

"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 t...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Note on the Transliteration and Transcription of Tibetan Names and Terms
• Figures and Maps
• Tables
• Introduction
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 2 A Perspective on the Ganden Phodrang's Administration of Taxation in the 19th and 20th Centuries Based on Archival Sources
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 4 Traditional Taxation Systems in Western Tibet: A Comparative Perspective
• Chapter 5 Lam yig-An Official Document Granting Travel Privileges in Tibet
• Chapter 6 "My Karma Selected Me to Become a Ferryman": The Role of Waterways and Watercraft in the Corvée Tax System in Pre-1959 Tibet
• Chapter 7 Performing Tibetan Opera As khral in the First Half of the 20th Century: In Principle a "Tax", in Experience a Pervasive Obligation
• Chapter 8 A Preliminary Investigation Into Monk-Tax: The Concept of grwa khral/btsun khral/ban khral and Its Meanings
• Chapter 9 Monastic Obligations, Hat Change and Lhasa Encroachment: Taxation Rights Among Politico-Religious Shifts in the Kingdom of Nangchen
• Chapter 10 "By Ancient Custom and Engagements": Trade, Taxes and Diplomacy in Ladakh and Western Tibet between the 17th and 20th Centuries
• Chapter 11 Taxes and Corvées in the Manorial and Monastic Estates of Zangskar (Western Himalayas)
• Chapter 12 The Fiscal Status of Buddhist and Bönpo Institutions in Mustang (Nepal): A Historical Overview
• Index.