Pashmina: The Kashmir Shawl and Beyond - Hardcover

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Janet Rizvi's book Ladakh, Crossroads of High Asia (Oxford University Press, Delhi, 3rd edn. 2012) has been continuously in print for nearly 35 years. She is also author of the highly praised Trans-Himalayan Caravans: Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh (Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1999). As well as writing the chapter 'Woven Textiles' in The Crafts of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh (ed. Jaya Jaitley, Mapin, Ahmedabad, 1989), she has contributed articles on the Kashmir shawl to several authoritative reference works: The Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 2004), The Encyclopedia of India (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 2006), and The Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (Berg Publishers, Oxford, 2010). She wrote the chapter 'The Asian Trade in Kashmir Shawls' in Textiles from India, The Global Trade (ed. Rosemary Crill, Seagull, Kolkata, 2005). Monisha Ahmed is an independent researcher who has been visiting and writing about Ladakh since 1987. Many of those years have been spent living among the nomadic herdspeople of Changthang, Ladakh's high-altitude plateaux, researching their life with special reference to their textiles and trade in pashmina. This was first for her doctoral degree from Oxford University which later developed into the book Living Fabric - Weaving Among the Nomads of Ladakh Himalaya (Orchid Press, Bangkok, 2002), and received the Textile Society of America's R.L. Shep award in 2003 for best book in the field of ethnic textile studies. Since then she has co-edited Ladakh - Culture at the Crossroads (Marg Publications, Mumbai, 2005), and published several articles on textile arts of Ladakh. Formerly Associate Editor of Marg, she is co-founder and Executive Director of the Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation (LAMO), Leh.