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<p><strong>Creator's Description</strong>: This article investigates the relationships between political space and socio-economic organization in the lower Spiti Valley, a Tibetan-speaking area in Himachal Pradesh, India. Of main concern are the periods between 1846 and 1947 when Spiti was under British rule and the development after India gained its independence in 1947. The paper traces the changes in the system of land law as they affected the taxpayer (<em>khral pa</em>) households in the nineteenth century and in particular since the mid-twentieth century led to the emergence of a subordinate stratum of a continuously growing number of independent permanent households (<em>khang chung</em>) with relatively small amounts of land. In particular an attempt is made to reconstruct the socio-economic organization and the taxation system in the nineteenth-twentieth century as well as the development of the administrative and socio-economic structure between 1947 and 2000. This is followed by a comparative analysis of the growth of the population and number of households which is concluded by observations on inheritance and marriage patterns.</p>
<b>Publisher's Description:</b> The papers in this volume all result from field work in the Indian Himalayas and the TAR conducted by the Interdisciplinary Research Unit, Austrian Science Fund. While the research goals were established within the framework of transdisciplinary research, each scholar approaches scientific problems according to the methodologies associated with their respective disciplines: philology, philosophy, history, art history, linguistics, and anthropology.<br>In the contribution published here, Steinkellner, Klimburg-Salter, Widorn, and Jahoda explicate the structure, methods, and advantages of transdisciplinary research. Lasic and Tauscher analyse two different philosophical questions on the basis of manuscripts from Tabo (Spiti) and Gondhla (Lahaul). Pasang Wangdu, Tropper and Ponweiser each examine a Buddhist monument from a different perspective: Keru (TAR), Wanla (Ladakh), and Tabo. Papa-Kalantari and Hein discuss respectively an iconographic problem and oral traditions from Spiti and upper Kinnaur.