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Hindutashravi

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Hindutash : My Contribution

Karakash River in the Western Kunlun Range, seen from the Pan-Kashmir Highway

Peak in Kunlun range

View of Western Kunlun Range from the Pan-Kashmir Highway

Details of a map of Central Asia (1878) showing the Hindu-tagh Pass and Khotan in Chinese Turkestan as well as the northern border regions of the British Indian Empire (which included the Kashmir region).^[1] The international border is shown in the two-toned purple and pink band. The mountain passes are shown in bright red. Warning the lat/long information is not everywhere correct.

1909 Map of the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu. The names of different regions, important cities, rivers, and mountains are underlined in red.

A pass in Ladakh in Kashmir leading over the Kuen Lun mountain into Khotan. The road to it leaves the Karakoram route at Suget, and lies for two marches up the Karakash river. Robert Schlagintweit crossed this pass from a camping ground called Sumgal, on the Karakash River. He estimated its height to be 17,879 feet. At the top there is a much-crevassed and extremely steep glacier. The road by this pass can only be used by foot-passengers. (Johnson -Trotter) ...the eastern (Kuenlun) range forms the southern boundary of Khotan, and is crossed by two passes, the Yangi or Elchi Diwan in the Aksai Chin area in the Chang Thang or Changthang area in north eastern Ladakh in Kashmir, crossed in 1865 by W. H. Johnson of the Survey of India, and the Hindutash Diwan , crossed by Robert Schlagintweit in 1857. Both passes are very difficult, and the latter can only be used by foot-passengers. Hindutash in the Kuen Lun range in the highlands of Kashmir literally means Indian Stone