Physical Geography Of Western Tibet

The following Memoir contains the purely geographical part of The report submitted to the Indian Government after the author?s return from the Tibetan Boundary Commission, which was deputed to Ladak by the GovernorGeneral (Lord Hardinge) in 1847. The diplomatic object of this commission was to define officially the territorial boundary between the transHimalayan possessions of our new ally and dependent Maharaja Gulab Singh, and the Tibetan provinces subject to China; but the ChineseTibetan authorities declining, as usual, to hold any intercourse with the British, or to admit us within their territory. This book is the geographical part of the report prepared by the author. Its object was to demarcate the extent of the boundaries of Ladakh (which was under the king of Kashmir) and China. The book describes the river systems, geographical sub divisions, mountains, valleys, alluvial plains, rivers, lakes and glaciers etc. This book is a reprint of the 1854 edition.