Where Three Empires Meet: A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit, and the Adjoining CountriesAsian Educational Services, 1993 - 528 pages A travelogue that describes the visit of the author to Kashmir, Ladakh and to what is now Pakistan occupied Kashmir. |
Contents
KASHMIR CANTILEVER BRIDGE | 12 |
DOONGAHS | 20 |
THE CHENAR BAGH | 38 |
9 | 203 |
1 | 236 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 296 |
CHAPTER XX | 314 |
NILT FORT IN JANUARY 1892 AFTER THE TOWERS HAD BEEN | 405 |
A DOGRA AND A GURKHA SEPOY OF THE KASHMIR BODYGUARD | 452 |
CHAPTER XXIX | 468 |
A FLYING COLUMN IS SENT UP THE VALLEYA CHRISTMAS NIGHTS | 487 |
SEPOYS OF THE TWENTIETH PUNJAB INFANTRY AND HUNZA | 491 |
CHAPTER XXXI | 504 |
FROM GILGIT TO RAWAL PINDIA TROOP OF KINGSTHE INDUS | 517 |
KAP PORTION OF KASHMIR AND ADJACENT STATES | 525 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 422 |
Other editions - View all
Where Three Empires Meet: A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western ... Edward Frederick Knight No preview available - 2018 |
Where Three Empires Meet: A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western ... Edward Frederick Knight No preview available - 2015 |
Where Three Empires Meet: A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western ... Edward Frederick Knight No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
appeared Astor baggage Balti Baltistan begar Boonji Borzil Bower Buddhist camp Captain carried Chalt Chilas Chinese Chitral chortens cliff Colonel Durand coolies crags crossed cultivation dastur descended desert Dogra doongah enemy enemy's feet fighting fire force fortress frontier garrison Gilgit River Gilgit road Gilgit Valley glaciers gompa gorge grain guns Gurkhas hand Himis Hindoo Koosh Hunza India Indus Valley jezails Jhelam journey Kanjut Kashmir Khan Ladak lamas land Lieutenant looked lower sanga lumbadar Maharajah Mahomedan Maiun Manners Smith miles monastery mountains mules Mussulman Nagar Naib Wazir Nanga Parbat natives night Nilt Fort Nilt nullah nullah Pamirs pass Pathans precipices Punialis Punjab Rajah region ridge river rocks round Russian sahib sepoys servants side Skardu skooshok slopes snow snowy Spedding Spedding's Srinagur steep stones strange summit thanadar thum Tibet Tibetan torrent tribesmen troops village walls wind winter Yarkand
References to this book
Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War Victoria Schofield No preview available - 2003 |