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Spiti: A Buddhist Land in Western Himalaya

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Title Spiti: A Buddhist Land in Western Himalaya
 
Creator Verma, V.
 
Subject 954 South Asia India
 
Description Spiti is a land, dry, dusty and desolate defying description. Standing back to back with Lahaul, the other subdivision of the distrtct called Lahaul and Splti in Himachal Pradesh. It lies enmeshed in the folds of the great western Himalaya with Baralacha Range standing guard on its north and huge Manirang Chain in the south. Rock, rubble and liver combine to give Spiti its fascinating profile: steep, towering cliffs of hard rock at the outer edges of the picture, next the cone heaps of rubble which lie tilted against the rock, next and closest to the centre, the flat, soft and yielding plateaus of gravel and at the centre the river itself, which keeps cutting deeper and deeper into the bed, creating banks which are straight and steep. The main valley looks as if it had consisted originally of a level plain, the greater part of which over the time. has been carried away by the river shut in steep cliffs. The remains of the plain now form the plateaus above the cliffs. Rising from them the mountains rear up their heads in jagged ridges completely blocking the view. The plateaus and slopes of debris look brown and bare, and the rocks are of all colours, shades of red and yellow predominating. Geographically the land presents a variety of terrain.
 
Publisher B. R. Publishing Corporation
 
Date 1997
 
Type Book
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://hillagricrepository.co.in/1169/1/81043.pdf
Verma, V. (1997) Spiti: A Buddhist Land in Western Himalaya. B. R. Publishing Corporation, Delhi, India. ISBN 81-7018-971-3