Osmaston, Henry, and Philip Denwood, eds.1995. Recent Research on Ladakh 4 & 5. Proceedings of the Fourth and Fifth International Colloquia on Ladakh. Bristol 1989 & London 1992. London: SOAS Studies. ISBN 0 7286 0241 5. 429 pages.
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Contents:

4th Colloquium (Bristol 1989)

Henry Osmaston- Introduction

John Clarke - Survey of Metalworking in Ladakh

John Crook - Ecology and Culture in the Adaptive Radiation of Tibetan Speaking Peoples in the Himalayas

Philip Denwood - William Moorcroft: an Assessment

Jamyang Gyaltsen - Monks of Mangtro Gompa

Kath Howard - Archaeological Notes on mChod-rten Types in Ladakh and Zanskar from the 11th - 15th Centuries

Neil Howard - The Fortified Places of Zanskar

Patrick Kaplanian - L'homme dans le monde surnaturel du Ladakh

David Mallon & Roger Prodon - Ecology and Conservation in Ladakh

Gudrun Meier - Sozialstrukturen in Hunza (Pakistan)

Henry Osmaston - Farming, Nutrition & Health in Ladakh, Tibet & Lowland China

Nigel Padfield - Child Health and Nutrition in some Ladakhi Villages

Abby Ripley - Food as Ritual

Robert Roaf - Ladakh in 1936

Nawang Tsering Shakspo - The Significance of Khusho in the Cultural History of Ladakh

Abdul Ghani Sheikh - A Brief History of Muslims in Ladakh

Harjit Singh - Ecological Set-up and Agrarian Structure of High Altitude Villages of Ladakh

Nawang Tsering - The Fate of Traditional Education in Ladakh

Rohit Vohra - Early History of Ladakh: Mythic Lore and Fabulation

Kulbhushan Warikoo - Gateway to Central Asia: the Transhimalayan Trade of Ladakh 1846-1947

Fifth Colloquium (London 1992):

Philip Denwood - Introduction

John Bray - Kasmir, Ladakh and Western Tibet: Episodes in Frontier Diplomacy during British Rule in India

James Crowden - Development and Change in Zangskar 1977-1989

Philip Denwood - The Tibetanisation of Ladakh: the Linguistic Evidence

Pascale Dollfus - Ethnohistoire des musulmans du Ladakh central

Nicky Grist - Moorcroft's Contribution to Ladakh Studies

Kim Gutschow - Kinship in Zangskar: Idiom and Practice

Neil Howard - Military Aspects of the Dogra Conquest of Ladakh 1834-1839

Bernard le Calloc'h - Historical Background of Csoma de Kôrös's sojourn in Ladakh 1834-1839

Peter Marczell - Boddhisattva Csoma de Kôrös: Myth or Reality?

Gudrun Meier - A.H. Francke - a "Brother in Spirit" to Alexander Csoma de Kôrös

Elizabeth Tóth - A Source Used by Alexander Csoma de Kôrös for his Tibetan Studies (Giorgi, Alphabetum Tibetanum)

Mark Trewin - The Politics of Ladakhi Song: Three versions of a praise song attributed to Morup Stanzin, c. 1825

Rohit Vohra - Arabic Inscriptions of the Late First Millennium A.D. from Tangtse in Ladakh 419