Tobdan | |
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Born | 1944 Tod valley, Lahaul tehsil,
Kangra district,
Punjab Province, British India |
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation(s) | Historian and linguist |
Known for | Work on the history, traditions, and languages of Lahaul and some neighbouring regions |
Tobdan (born 1944) is a historian and linguist from Himachal Pradesh, India. He is noted for his work on the cultural traditions, histories, and languages of the Lahaul and Spiti district, and some neighboring regions.
Tobdan originally belongs to the Tod valley of the Lahaul division of the Lahaul and Spiti district, Himachal Pradesh. [1] [2] He is a retired bank official. [3] [4] He lives in the Kullu valley, Himachal Pradesh. [5] Tobdan is multilingual. He is fluent in his native sTodpa, Hindi, English, and Punjabi, and is conversant in most of the languages spoken in Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, and Spiti. [6]
Tobdan's work as a historian has focused on the western Himalayan regions of Lahaul, Kullu, and Kinnaur, and the trans-Himalayan regions of Spiti and Ladakh. As a linguist he specializes in the Tibetic languages of the Lahaul and Spiti district (see Bibliography).
Tobdan was among the founder-members of the non-governmental organization 'Society for Conservation and Promotion of Culture in Lahaul & Spiti', and the chief editor of its annual, and later bi-annual magazine Kunzom, which was published from 2005 to 2014. [7] [8] Kunzom published short stories, poems, folksongs and grammatical sketches in various languages spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti district.
Tobdan writes in English, Hindi, and Tibetan. [9]
Tobdan's works have been cited by many academics and independent scholars as important secondary sources on the histories, languages, and cultures of regions in Himachal Pradesh like Kullu, Lahaul, Spiti, and Kinnaur. These include Moran (2013), [15] Tsering (2014), [16] Bellezza (2015), [17] Rahimzadeh (2016), [18] Bhattacharya (2017), [19] Chamberlain and Chamberlain (2019), [20] and Halperin (2019). [21]
Elizabeth Anne Stutchbury, who conducted her doctoral research in Lahaul in the early 1980s, appreciated Tobdan's early initiative, as a Lahauli local, of studying and documenting his homeland, while decrying the general lack of any in-depth anthropological research on Lahaul at that point of time. [22]
John Bray commends Tobdan and Dorje's book on the Moravian missionaries in western Himalayas (2008) as a valuable contribution that makes information from disparate sources on this subject more readily available. [23]
As of 2021, Tobdan had written the following books:
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Tobdan | |
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Born | 1944 Tod valley, Lahaul tehsil,
Kangra district,
Punjab Province, British India |
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation(s) | Historian and linguist |
Known for | Work on the history, traditions, and languages of Lahaul and some neighbouring regions |
Tobdan (born 1944) is a historian and linguist from Himachal Pradesh, India. He is noted for his work on the cultural traditions, histories, and languages of the Lahaul and Spiti district, and some neighboring regions.
Tobdan originally belongs to the Tod valley of the Lahaul division of the Lahaul and Spiti district, Himachal Pradesh. [1] [2] He is a retired bank official. [3] [4] He lives in the Kullu valley, Himachal Pradesh. [5] Tobdan is multilingual. He is fluent in his native sTodpa, Hindi, English, and Punjabi, and is conversant in most of the languages spoken in Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, and Spiti. [6]
Tobdan's work as a historian has focused on the western Himalayan regions of Lahaul, Kullu, and Kinnaur, and the trans-Himalayan regions of Spiti and Ladakh. As a linguist he specializes in the Tibetic languages of the Lahaul and Spiti district (see Bibliography).
Tobdan was among the founder-members of the non-governmental organization 'Society for Conservation and Promotion of Culture in Lahaul & Spiti', and the chief editor of its annual, and later bi-annual magazine Kunzom, which was published from 2005 to 2014. [7] [8] Kunzom published short stories, poems, folksongs and grammatical sketches in various languages spoken in the Lahaul and Spiti district.
Tobdan writes in English, Hindi, and Tibetan. [9]
Tobdan's works have been cited by many academics and independent scholars as important secondary sources on the histories, languages, and cultures of regions in Himachal Pradesh like Kullu, Lahaul, Spiti, and Kinnaur. These include Moran (2013), [15] Tsering (2014), [16] Bellezza (2015), [17] Rahimzadeh (2016), [18] Bhattacharya (2017), [19] Chamberlain and Chamberlain (2019), [20] and Halperin (2019). [21]
Elizabeth Anne Stutchbury, who conducted her doctoral research in Lahaul in the early 1980s, appreciated Tobdan's early initiative, as a Lahauli local, of studying and documenting his homeland, while decrying the general lack of any in-depth anthropological research on Lahaul at that point of time. [22]
John Bray commends Tobdan and Dorje's book on the Moravian missionaries in western Himalayas (2008) as a valuable contribution that makes information from disparate sources on this subject more readily available. [23]
As of 2021, Tobdan had written the following books:
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: CS1 maint: others (
link)