Social Regulation: Case Studies from Tibetan History

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Social Regulation: Case Studies from Tibetan History examines the mechanisms that regulated Tibetan societies from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Focusing on processes rarely examined in historical studies of Tibet, this volume contributes to the emerging field of Tibetan social history.


About the Author


Jeannine Bischoff is a doctoral student at the University of Bonn, Germany. Her research focuses on Tibetan administrative documents concerning the rural communities attached to Kundeling monastery, in Central Tibet, before 1959.


Saul Mullard completed his D.Phil in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford in 2009. He has published numerous works on the history of Sikkim, including
Opening the Hidden Land: State Formation and the Construction of Sikkimese History(Brill, 2011).