Since 13 April 1984, Indian and Pakistani troops have confronted each other, eyeball to eyeball, for control of the Siachen Glacier and its approaches in the eastern Karakoram mountain range,
Are autonomous hill councils the answer to highlanders' woes? Not necessarily, if the Ladakh Hill Council is taken as an example.
"Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah will, I have no
Not accepted within the fold of Pakistan, activists formulate a nationalist political ideology relying on the `mountain-ness' of the Northern Areas.
Come to Balawaristan! Experience the mystic serenity of
The world differentiates between the two populations of the Ladakh region of India´s extreme north – one Muslim, the other Buddhist — in interesting ways. Outsiders, be they from New Delhi
The autonomous council proposed for Leh will resolve only some of the problems engendered by the modern day Ladakhi politics. While the ties to Srinagar will be severed, the formula
A Rejoinder
In the September/October issue of Himal, Siddiq Wahid offered his views on the causes of the recent turmoil in Ladakh. According to this scholar, the cause of
Recent ethnic unrest in this "remote" region have to do with the Ladahkis' own victimisation to the phenomenon of "intellectual colonialism" that began with the Western missionary.
Ladakh only opened to tourists in 1974, before which it was almost completely isolated from outside influences. After the Sino-Indian war of 1962, large numbers of Indian troops were stationed
An international development conference with a difference was held in Leh, Ladakh last fall. It was so deliberately low-key that it went wholly unnoticed elsewhere in the Himalaya. While ten
