. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. ount Haramuk. — The First Discovery andMensuration of K -. — The River Sind. — The State Camp at Gunderbal. Srinagar is now the summerresidence of His Highness theMaharajah of Jammu andKashmir, one of the greatProtectorates of the BritishEmpire. The States of theMaharajah include BuddhistLadakh, which by race,customs and rehgion, geo-graphical situation and oro-hydrographic features, is reallya portion of Tibet; Baltistan,whose inliabitants are Shiiteand the minor
. Karakoram and western Himalaya 1909, an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi. ount Haramuk. — The First Discovery andMensuration of K -. — The River Sind. — The State Camp at Gunderbal. Srinagar is now the summerresidence of His Highness theMaharajah of Jammu andKashmir, one of the greatProtectorates of the BritishEmpire. The States of theMaharajah include BuddhistLadakh, which by race,customs and rehgion, geo-graphical situation and oro-hydrographic features, is reallya portion of Tibet; Baltistan,whose inliabitants are Shiiteand the minor districts of Astor-Gilgit, Hunza-Nagar,the whole of the territory lying between Afghanistan,Chinese Turkestan and Tibet proper. The population of Kashmiris Sunnite Mohammedan, whereas Jammu (a vast plain districtbordering the Punjab) is entirely Hindu. The whole kingdom, formed of elements so diverse, was but recentlyunited under the domination of Hindu rulers of the Dogra Rajput had been for some twenty yeare subject to the Sikhs of thePunjab when Gulab Singh was sent thither in 1841 to put down a Mohammedans ;etc.—in a word 82 Chapter III. Ill the course of the following fifteen years his army, little by little,conquered Ladakh and Baltistan. Meantime the Punjab had beenconquered by the British, between 1845 and 1856, and the ImperialGovernment recognized the sovei-eignty over Jammu and Kashmirof Gulab Singh, upon whom they conferred the title of Maharajah, andwho became the founder of the present dynasty. It would seem as ifthe peculiar position of Kashmir, surrounded as it is by mountainswhich are difficult to cross, and passes which before the construction ofthe carriage road were quite closed by snow for several months everyyear, ought to have sheltered it from outside influences and put it in aposition to follow the lines of its own development undisturbed, favouredby its temperate climate and the marvellous fertihty of its soil. Thishappy i
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