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Tibetan gift-giving and the erasure of provenance in colonial India
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22 Nov 2025
Tibet
United Kingdom
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22 Nov 2025
This article examines how an eighteenth-century decision to bureaucratize gift exchange continued to disrupt long-standing South Asian protocols of reciprocity and regard well into the twentieth century.
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