HIMALAYAN RESEARCH BULLETIN XVI (1 & 2) 1996

Volume XVI

Number 1 & 2

1996

• Editorial
• Rasoul Sorkhabi, Only One Himalaya: Prespectives on the Himalaya as a Regional Science
• Vasant Saberwal, The Politicization of Gaddi access to Grazing Resources in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, 1960-1994
• Mark Baker, Changing Contexts, Steady Flows: Patterns of institutional change within the communal irrigation systems (kuhl) of Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India
• Arun Agrawal, Successful Collective Action among Village Forest Management Institutions in the Indian Himalayas
• Ken I. MacDonald, Indigenous Labour Arrangements and Household Security in Northern Pakistan
• An Interview with Padma Ratna Tuladhar, David Gellner and Gregory Sharkey

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Book Reviews

• Narayan Kadhka, Foreign Aid, Poverty, and Stagnation in Nepal
  P.P. Karan and Hiroshii Ishii, Nepal: Development and change in a landlocked Himalayan kingdom Dor Bahadur Bista, Fatalism and Development.Reviewed by John Metz
• Graham Coleman, A Handbook of Tibetan Culture
  Robert Thurman, Inside Tibetan Buddhism: Rituals and Symbols Revealed
  Victor Chan, Tibet Handbook: A Pilgrimage Guide. Reviewed by Todd Lewis
• Rebecca French, The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet. Reviewed by Anne Frechette
• David Gellner and Declan Quigley, eds., Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste in the Kathmandu Valley. Reviewed by Gregory Price Grieve
• David Gellenr, Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest: Newar Buddhism and its Hierarchy of Ritual. Reviewed by Theodore Riccardi
• South Asia Bulletin, XII:1-2 1992 (Special Issue on Nepal). Reviewed by William Fisher
• John Shroder, ed., Himalayan to the Sea: Geology, Geomorphology, and the Quaternary Reviewed by Daniel D. Schelling
• D.N. Tewari, Himalayan Ecosystem Reviewed by Gavin Jordan

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Date of Publication: December 1996