New Perspectives on Modern Ladakh. Fresh Discoveries and Continuing Conversations in the Indian Himalaya

Contents Introduction / 7 EBEN YONNETTI When the Snowy Mountains Turn Black: Climate Change, Local Deities, and Buddhism in Ladakh / 15 SIERRA GLADFELTER Artificial Glaciers and Ice Stupas: The Contemporary Remaking of Ladakh’s Place-Based Practices of Water Storage as Modern “Solutions” to Climate Change / 45 JULIANE DAME & JUDITH MÜLLER Urbanisation in Ladakh: Migration Patterns and Socio-ecological Implications / 73 SOPHIE DAY Non-married women: life stories from four members of an extended family in and around Leh / 95 KONCHOK DORJEY Myths and Social Beliefs Surrounding Wild Mushrooms in Ladakh / 115 RAFAŁ BESZTERDA The Humble Honeybee: an Index of Social Change in Kinnaur? / 133 PIOTR KLAFKOWSKI The Roerich Family and Ladakh / 155 RIGZIN CHODON Kye lang ag bar and La dwags pho nya: two 20th Century Missionary Newspapers from Lahaul and Ladakh / 181 JOHN BRAY The Moravian Mission’s Weaving Enterprise in Ladakh (1939–1947): Social Uplift in a Time of Change / 207 URSULA KLINGELFUSS-SCHNEIDER Weaving in Lower Ladakh – a report / 225 CATHERINE ALLIÉ “We are KAL”: Weaving and Social Enterprise in Contemporary Ladakh / 247 BETTINA ZEISLER & RAINER KIMMIG Did Gama Ever Reach the Land of Lama? / 263 Index of figures, maps, drawings and diagrams / 289 Index of person, geographical places and subjects / 297