This book deals with the pastoral adaptations of the Changpas of Changthang, Ladakh in India, which underwent dramatic changes in the last few decades. Ladakh is a cold desert. The local Changpas, practice yak, sheep and goat rearing as a part of their subsistence. Maintenance of such herds was possible only through a skillful organisation of the migration movements to avail pastures in certain niche or at certain times in the particular environment of the cold desert. Changthang region saw number of changes with major consequences for Changpas, the pastoral nomads of the area. The focus of this study is the response of traditional pastoral nomads to change and implications of this response for the region.
