SSC CGL – SSC CGL Test 52

The barren mountains and valleys of Ladakh lie across two of the oldest trade routes in the western Himalayas. One the more important in earlier centuries ran eight hundred miles from Yarkand in Sinkiang to Srinagar in Kashmir and thence to India, Afghanistan and even on to Persia. This is thought to have been one of the routes from India by which Buddhism was carried to China and was certainly used by Chinese pilgrims coming to India to see Buddhism for themselves. The second major trade route, of particular significance to all Ladakh's neighbours in the first half of the nineteenth century, ran from the shawl­wool producing areas of Western Tibet through the Ladakhi capital of Leh to Kashmir.<br><br> Barrier versus entrepót this is the history of Ladakh's involvement with the outside world. Invasion has been difficult, conquest practically impossible. The area is divided by three parallel ranges of high mountains separated by deep river valleys: the Zanskar range rising to 24,000 feet is separated from the Ladakh range by the Indus which rises some 400 miles away near Lake Manasarovar in Tibet; and the Ladakh range rising to 21,000 feet is separated from the Karakoram range by the Shyok river which eventually joins the Indus just inside the present Pakistan border.

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The barren mountains and valleys of Ladakh lie across two of the oldest trade routes in the western Himalayas. One the more important in earlier centuries ran eight hundred miles from Yarkand in Sinkiang to Srinagar in Kashmir and thence to India, Afghanistan and even on to Persia. This is thought to have been one of the routes from India by which Buddhism was carried to China and was certainly used by Chinese pilgrims coming to India to see Buddhism for themselves. The second major trade route, of particular significance to all Ladakh's neighbours in the first half of the nineteenth century, ran from the shawl­wool producing areas of Western Tibet through the Ladakhi capital of Leh to Kashmir.<br><br> Barrier versus entrepót this is the history of Ladakh's involvement with the outside world. Invasion has been difficult, conquest practically impossible. The area is divided by three parallel ranges of high mountains separated by deep river valleys: the Zanskar range rising to 24,000 feet is separated from the Ladakh range by the Indus which rises some 400 miles away near Lake Manasarovar in Tibet; and the Ladakh range rising to 21,000 feet is separated from the Karakoram range by the Shyok river which eventually joins the Indus just inside the present Pakistan border.

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The barren mountains and valleys of Ladakh lie across two of the oldest trade routes in the western Himalayas. One the more important in earlier centuries ran eight hundred miles from Yarkand in Sinkiang to Srinagar in Kashmir and thence to India, Afghanistan and even on to Persia. This is thought to have been one of the routes from India by which Buddhism was carried to China and was certainly used by Chinese pilgrims coming to India to see Buddhism for themselves. The second major trade route, of particular significance to all Ladakh's neighbours in the first half of the nineteenth century, ran from the shawl­wool producing areas of Western Tibet through the Ladakhi capital of Leh to Kashmir.<br><br> Barrier versus entrepót this is the history of Ladakh's involvement with the outside world. Invasion has been difficult, conquest practically impossible. The area is divided by three parallel ranges of high mountains separated by deep river valleys: the Zanskar range rising to 24,000 feet is separated from the Ladakh range by the Indus which rises some 400 miles away near Lake Manasarovar in Tibet; and the Ladakh range rising to 21,000 feet is separated from the Karakoram range by the Shyok river which eventually joins the Indus just inside the present Pakistan border.

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