Taxation in Tibetan Societies: Rules, Practices and Discourses

✍️ Alice TRAVERS, Peter SCHWIEGER and Charles RAMBLE


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 the analysis of taxation in Tibetan societies (both under the Ganden Phodrang and beyond it) in new directions, using hitherto unexploited Tibetan-language sources. It pursues the dual objective of advancing our understanding of the organisation of taxation from an institutional perspective and of highlighting the ways in which taxpayers themselves experienced and represented these fiscal systems.



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Alice TRAVERS, Peter SCHWIEGER and Charles RAMBLE