Ladakh: Physical Statistical and Historical

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The Books Contains a full and acurate account of Ladakh. The information’s will be of interest not only to the antiquary and scientific enquirer but also to the general reader. In the book Ladakh has been identified with the Akhasa Region of Polemy and the proof that Graucasus was a Tibetan word and that the tibetan people and language was once spread over a much greater extent than what they now occupy.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alexander Cunningham

Sir Alexander Cunningham (1814-1893) was the first Archaeological Surveyor to the Government of India (1861-1865), the department was abolished in 1865, but revived in 1870, with Cunningham as Director, he held the post until he retired in 1885. Apart from his official reports of his annual tours and his occasional contribution to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, he wrote on Ladakh; The Bhilsa Topes; The Ancient Geography of Inscriptions of Ashoka; The Stupa of Bharhut; The Book of Indian Eras; Mahabodhi; Coins of Mediaeval India; Coins of Indo-Scythian Sakas and Kush; Coins of Alexanderâ€™s Successors in the East.