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The names of regions, important cities, rivers, and mountains are underlined in red. In 1845, the First Anglo-Sikh War broke out. According to The Imperial Gazetteer of India: Gulab Singh contrived to hold himself aloof till the battle of Sobraon (1846), when he appeared as a useful mediator and the trusted advisor of Sir Henry Lawrence. Two ...
The bharal (or blue sheep) is the most abundant mountain ungulate in the Ladakh region, although it is not found in some parts of Zangskar and Sham areas. The bharal is one of the preferred choices of prey of the rare snow leopard. [76] The Asiatic ibex is a mountain goat that is distributed in the western part of Ladakh. It is the second-most ...
Muslim rule in India saw a major shift in the cultural, linguistic, and religious makeup of the subcontinent. [8] Persian and Arabic vocabulary began to enter local languages, giving way to modern Punjabi, Bengali, and Gujarati, while creating new languages including Hindustani and its dialect, Deccani , used as official languages under Muslim ...
Hunza. Coordinates. 36°19′01″N 74°39′00″E / . 36.316942°N 74.649900°E. / 36.316942; 74.649900. [ 1] Baltit fort as seen from Ultar Hunza. The Hunza Valley ( Burushaski: ہُنزݳ دِش, romanized: Hunza Dish; Wakhi / Urdu: وادی ہنزہ) is a mountainous valley in the northern part of the Gilgit-Baltistan region of ...
Medieval Islamic geography and cartography refer to the study of geography and cartography in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age (variously dated between the 8th century and 16th century). Muslim scholars made advances to the map-making traditions of earlier cultures, [ 1] explorers and merchants learned in their travels across the ...
Hindu Kush (top right) and its extending mountain ranges like Selseleh-ye Safīd Kūh or Koh-i-Baba to the west. The Hindu Kush is an 800-kilometre-long (500 mi) mountain range on the Iranian Plateau in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas. It stretches from central and eastern Afghanistan [ 2 ][ 3 ] into northwestern Pakistan ...
Arunachal Pradesh. / 27.06; 93.37. Arunachal Pradesh ( / ərʊˌnɑːtʃəl prəˈdeɪʃ /, [ 19] lit. 'Dawn-Lit Mountain Province') [ 20] is a state in northeast India. It was formed from the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and India declared it as a state on 20 February 1987. Itanagar is its capital and largest town.
India is home to 10.9% of the world's Muslim population. [ 93][ 97] According to Pew Research Center, there can be 213 million Muslims in 2020, India's 15% population. [ 98][ 99] Indian Muslim have a fertility rate of 2.36, the highest in the nation as per as according to year 2019-21 estimation. [ 100]