Yuksom

Who holds it

Title

Lepcha clan headmen (panu)

Since

not pinned

Confidence

low

No source we could open names the holder for the winter of 1199-1200.

Overlord

none: no one rules Tibet in 1200; the house answers to its own patrons and to the custom of the valleys

How things stand that morning

Lepcha villages; no chief known.

Wealth

No source we could open gives figures; the usual base is estates and serfs, herds, pass tolls, trade in salt, wool, tea and barley, and the gifts of patrons.

Military

No standing army; the house or lord calls on retainers, tenants and kin. No troop numbers are given by any source we could open.

Council

none known; the place is governed by its lord or house, and no source we could open names a headman or judge

Communities

Lepcha (Rong) clans; Limbu on the western edge; a few Bhutia settlers from the north (13th century and later)

Fairs and markets

none known; pilgrims and caravans meet at the feasts of the temples, but no fair is dated

Walls and castle

none known; the dzong (fort) as an institution of the district lord belongs to the fourteenth century

Trade and crafts

not described by any source we could open

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Gazetteer and the Sikkim pages. Treasury of Lives, the Blue Annals, the Red Annals, Petech, Sorensen and Hazod and Davidson could not be opened in this session (treasuryoflives.org and rigpawiki.org refused the fetch; the archive.org full texts were refused or cut off), so facts marked 'recalled' are from memory of those works and unchecked.