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MOHAN SINGH. "Extreme temperature events over Kullu Valley." Journal of Agrometeorology 12, no. 2 (December 1, 2010): 254–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.54386/jam.v12i2.1318.

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Thakur, M., and Rajesh Chauhan. "Growth performance of seven tree species in riverain area of North Western Himalaya." Indian Journal of Forestry 31, no. 1 (March 1, 2008): 53–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2008-53elqj.

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The growth performance of 17 years old seven tree species namely Salix tetrasperma, Robinia pseudoacacia, Alnus nitida, Populus deltoides, Eucalyptus tereticornis, Pinus roxburghii and Dalbergia sissoo was evaluated in riverain site of Kullu valley of Himachal Pradesh. The growth performance of these tree species were recorded in the order of Populus deltoides > Alnus nitida > Salix tetrasperma > Eucalyptus tereticornis > Robinia pseudoacacia > Pinus roxburghii > Dalbergia sissoo. The species like Populus deltoids, Alnus nitida, Salix tetrasperma and Eucalyptus tereticornis are more suitable for plantation along the river basin of Kullu valley as they exhibited high growth under such conditions.

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Shashni, Sarla, Sheetal Sharma, Sumati Rathore, Sher Samant, and Rakesh Sundriyal. "Traditional Uses and Potential to Develop an Enterprise of Wild Rose Species Rosa brunonii syn R. moschata in Kullu District of North Western Himalaya." Journal of Non Timber Forest Products 24, no. 3 (September 1, 2017): 137–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2017-5yvalo.

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This paper highlights a description of wild rose species Rosa brunonii syn moschata found in the Kullu valley of Himachal Pradesh along with its traditional uses to cure joint pain. It also describes the future potential to develop wild rose based enterprise to add some economic benefit to the rural community of the valley especially women.

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Shashni, Sarla, Sumati Rathore, and Rakesh Sundriyal. "Ethnomedicinal plants used for curing various gynaecological problems in North Western Himalayan district Kullu of Himachal Pradesh." Journal of Non Timber Forest Products 26, no. 2 (June 1, 2019): 93–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2019-12yv1q.

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The present study documents ethnomedicinal plants used by the local inhabitants of Kullu Valley to cure various gynaecological problems. Result shows total 15 plants species are being used by the women to cure these ailments.

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Kumar, Jayant, Disha Thakur, Manish Thakur, and Babita Babita. "Performance of strawberry cultivars in mid hill region of Kullu valley of Himachal Pradesh." Journal of Applied and Natural Science 8, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 967–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.31018/jans.v8i2.906.

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The present study was carried out to evaluate the performance of strawberry cultivars in mid hill region of Kullu valley of Himachal Pradesh. For this purpose nine strawberry cultivars viz Addie, Belrubi, Brighton, Chandler, Dana, Etna, Fern, Pajaro and Selva were planted at spacing of 30 x 15 cm in double rows on raised beds of 1m Ã— 3m size at Regional Horticultural Research and Training Station, Bajaura, Kullu, Himachal Pradesh. The experiment was laid out in a Randomized block design. The maximum plant height (16.37cm) was recorded with cv. Belrubi and maximum plant spread was attained by cv. Fern (EW 23.27 cm and NS 21.03 cm), maximum leaf length (16.90 cm) was recorded by cv. Belrubi and minimum (10.00 cm) with cv. Dana. The maximum leaf area was recorded with Chandler (76.03 cm2). The maximum fruit weight (14.93gm), total soluble solids (12.00oB), reducing sugars (5.01%) and total sugars (5.44%) were recorded with cv. Chandler. The maximum fruit yield per plant was observed with cv. Belrubi (996.3g/plant) which was closely followed by cv. Chandler (966.7 g/plant). Thus from the above studies it is concluded that Strawberry cultivars Belrubi and Chandler were best for commercial cultivation in mid hill region of Kullu valley of Himachal Pradesh.

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Thakur, Shalu, Syed Hanief, and N. Chauhan. "Multi purpose use of plant species in the Kullu Valley of Himachal Pradesh (India)." Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products 14, no. 2 (June 1, 2007): 139–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2007-nqco49.

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The paper presents a brief account of the multiple uses of two hundred forty one species found in the Kullu valley of Himachal Pradesh. The botanical binomial of the plants, local name with the use(s) of the plant has been provided.

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Chand, Hukam, S. C. Verma, S. K. Bhardwaj, S. D. Sharma, P. K. Mahajan, and Ravinder Sharma. "Effect of Changing Climatic Conditions on Chill Units Accumulation and Productivity of Apple in Mid Hill Sub Humid Zone of Western Himalayas, India." Current World Environment 11, no. 1 (April 25, 2016): 142–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/cwe.11.1.18.

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The present study was carried out during 2014-15 in the Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh, which is situated between 31º52’00” to 31º58’00” North latitude and 76º13’00” to 77º44’00” East longitudes.The cumulative chill units hours available for apple crop were calculated by using UTAH model for the period of 1986 to 2015 and a decrease of 6.38 chill units(CU) hours per year was recorded at Kullu Valley of Himachal Pradesh. Chill units for the last three decades i.e. 1986-1995, 1996-2005 and 2006-2015 also revealed a decreasing trend of the order of 63.79 CU decreased per decade.Monthly accumulation of chill unit hours during the same period for each winter month (November, December, January and February) revealed maximum decrease of 2.186 CU per year was observed for the month of February. Trend analysis of last five years 2011-2015 showed there was a huge decrease of 14.98 chill units per year. Data on apple productivity in Kullu district for last decade (2005-2014) showed a decreasing trend of the order of 0.183 tons/ha /year as per the regression equation y = -0.183x + 5.745. Thus the climatic conditions for apple cultivation in the Kullu district will be becoming unfavorable in the coming years.

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Sansar Raj and Thimmaiah. "Impact of Spatial Resolution of Digital Elevation Model on Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A case Study in Kullu Valley, Himalayas." Geosciences 9, no. 8 (August 17, 2019): 360. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9080360.

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Landslides are one of the most damaging geological hazards in mountainous regions such as the Himalayas. The Himalayan region is, tectonically, the most active region in the world that is highly vulnerable to landslides and associated hazards. Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) is a useful tool for understanding the probability of the spatial distribution of future landslide regions. In this research, the landslide inventory datasets were collected during the field study of the Kullu valley in July 2018, and 149 landslide locations were collected as global positioning system (GPS) points. The present study evaluates the LSM using three different spatial resolution of the digital elevation model (DEM) derived from three different sources. The data-driven traditional frequency ratio (FR) model was used for this study. The FR model was used for this research to assess the impact of the different spatial resolution of DEMs on the LSM. DEM data was derived from Advanced Land Observing Satellite-1 (ALOS) Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) ALOS-PALSAR for 12.5 m, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Global for 30 m, and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) for 90 m. As an input, we used eight landslide conditioning factors based on the study area and topographic features of the Kullu valley in the Himalayas. The ASTER-Global 30m DEM showed higher accuracy of 0.910 compared to 0.839 for 12.5 m and 0.824 for 90 m DEM resolution. This study shows that that 30 m resolution is better suited for LSM for the Kullu valley region in the Himalayas. The LSM can be used for mitigation and future planning for spatial planners and developmental authorities in the region.

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Shashni, Sarla, and Sheetal Sharma. "WILD ROSEHIPS (ROSA MOSCHATASYN BRUNONII): SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD OPTION AMONG WOMEN IN NORTH WESTERN HIMALAYA OF KULLU VALLEY, HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA." International Journal of Advanced Research 9, no. 11 (November 30, 2021): 1071–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/13842.

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The paper describes the status of wild rosehips (Rosa moschata syn brunoni) in the Northwestern Himalayan district of Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India. Research work was carried out with the Women Saving and Credit Groups in the rural parts of the district which emerged as a sustainable livelihood option in the region while conserving natural resources.

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MOHAN SINGH and H. S. BHATIA. "Thermal time requirements for phenophases of apple genotypes in Kullu valley." Journal of Agrometeorology 13, no. 1 (June 1, 2011): 46–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.54386/jam.v13i1.1333.

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A field experiment was conducted at Horticultural Research Station, Seobag (Kullu) from 2004 to 2010. The phenology of ten apple cultivars was observed on every second day on three plants of each cultivar with three replications from bud-bust, green-tip, pink-bud, full-bloom to physiological maturity. GDD, HTU, PTU, HYTU and heat use efficiency was computed from the meteorological data recorded from observatory and averaged of for ten years. Tydeman, commercial and Mollice has taken lower GDD for the physiological maturity but higher for attaining petal-fall. On an average apple required 330 GDD from bud bust to petal fall with 4oC as base temperature. Cultivars completing the rest period earlier used more thermal units and giving good fruit yields as compare to those breaking their dormancy later. Thermal units explain more than 75-99 % variation in fruit yield. Higher thermal use efficiency was observed for Starking Delicious and Vance Delicious followed by Top Red and Tydeman which may be encouraged among the growers.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Kullu Valley"

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Sandhu, Mandi K. "Tourism and sustainability, the commercial trekking industry in the Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0008/MQ32241.pdf.

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Bingeman, Kristin. "Policy, gender and institutions, a journey through forest management issues in the Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ62693.pdf.

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Saczuk, Eric A. "Factors affecting risk from natural hazards, Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/20906.

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Lozecznik, Vanessa. "The role of protests as platforms for action on sustainability in the Kullu Valley, India." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4288.

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The Himalayan region of India has a surprisingly fragile ecosystem due in part to its geomorphic characteristics. In recent years the Himalayan ecosystem has been disturbed in various ways by both human and natural processes. Large developments threaten ecosystems in the area modifying local land use and subsistence patterns. This has important implications for the sustainable livelihoods of the local communities. People in these areas are very concerned about the lack of inclusion in development decision-making processes and the negative effects of development on their livelihood. Protest actions are spreading throughout Himachal Pradesh, not only to stop developments but also to re-shape how developments are taking place. The village of Jagatsukh was selected for in-depth study. That is where people started to organize around the Allain Duhangan Hydro Project and also where the protest actions in relation to the Hydro Project actually started. The overall purpose of this research was to understand the role of protests as a vehicle for public participation in relation to decisions about resources and the environment and to consider whether such movements are learning platforms for action on sustainability.

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Rajabi, Sareh. "Dating tectono-thermal events within the crystalline series of the Himalaya, the Kullu valley, NW India." Phd thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148838.

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The Greater Himalayan series preserve valuable geological information revealing a complex deformational and thermal history since the collision between India and Eurasia. This research employed field structural geology, microstructural analysis and geochronometers such as 40Ar/39Ar and U–Pb to reconstruct the deformational and thermal history of the crystalline series within the Kullu Valley, NW India. Key localities featuring geologically important structures within and in the vicinity of the Phojal recumbent fold were studied: an S-type gneiss (top-gneiss-series) at the structurally-highest part of the fold, deformed and undeformed leucogranites intruded into the crystalline series, and the phyllonites deformed by the Main Central Thrust. The sequencing of the thermal and deformational events that have been preserved within the microstructure of the Greater Himalaya series in the Kullu Valley indicates a complex tectonic history that can be summarised as: i) a leucogranite formation event in the mid-Eocene; ii) a deformation event in the late-Eocene; iii) regional Barrovian metamorphism in the early- Oligocene; iv) SW-verging recumbent folding in the Oligocene; v) extensional South Tibetan Detachment-related shearing in the Oligo-Miocene; vi) an early-Miocene static thermal event; and vii) mid-Miocene thrusting over the Main Central Thrust, followed by regional uplift in the Pliocene that resulted in the surface exhumation of the series. This study shows that the tectonic models that have been proposed for the evolution and exhumation of the Greater Himalaya might not be applicable to the NW Himalaya. The tectonic history revealed by the present study is inconsistent with the tectonic models involving: i) channel flow—because the Main Central Thrust and the South Tibetan Detachment were not coeval in the NW Himalaya; ii) fold-nappes—because the Main Central Thrust operated at least 10 Myr after the recumbent folding; and iii) wedge tectonics—because the South Tibetan Detachment was not folded by the Phojal fold. These models assume that the Himalaya evolved in a purely compressional tectonic regime since the continental collision. It is shown in this thesis that the model of tectonic mode switches is more applicable to the NW Himalaya—a compressional mode was in effect until the Oligocene, then from the late-Oligocene to mid-Miocene a switch to extension occurred and finally the mode switched back to compression from the mid-Miocene until the present day. It appears that the tectonic history of the crystalline series of the Himalaya has been controlled mainly by the kinematics of the subducting Indian plate, whereby a more dominant convergence induced crustal shortening, and a more accentuated roll-back stimulated crustal extension.

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Books on the topic "Kullu Valley"

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Kullu, a study in history: From the earliest to AD 1900. Delhi: Book India Pub. Co., 2000.

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Rerikh, S. N. Art in the Kulu valley. Kulu: The Roeruch Museum, 2004.

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Singh, Tej Vir. The Kulu Valley: Impact of tourism development in the mountain areas. New Delhi: Himalayan Books, 1989.

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Singh, Tejvir. The Kulu valley: Impact of tourism development in the mountain areas. New Delhi: Himalayan Books in association with Centre for Tourism Research, Lucknow, supported by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, 1989.

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al-Rasm ʻalá al-qīmah al-muḍāfah, T.V.A: Ḥasab taʻdīlāt qānūn al-mālīyah li 2010 li-ṭalabit al-maʻāhid al-ʻulyā wa-al-jāmiʻāt wa-kull al-mukhtaṣṣīn al-iqtiṣādīyīn. al-Jazāiʼr: Dār Hūmah, 2010.

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Spooner, Campbell. Ski Touring India's Kullu Valley. Alpine Touring Publishing, 2002.

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Kuniyal, Jagdish C. Tourism in Kullu Valley ; An Environmental Assessment. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 2004.

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C, Kuniyal Jagdish, and G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment & Development., eds. Tourism in Kullu Valley: An environmental assessment. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 2004.

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Halperin, Ehud. The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess. Edited by Robert Yelle. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190913588.001.0001.

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Haḍimbā is a major village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, a mountainous, rural area known as the Land of Gods. This book is an ethnographic study of Haḍimbā and her dynamic, mutually formative relationship with her community of followers. It explores the part played by the goddess in her devotees’ lives, particularly in their encounters with players, powers, and ideas both local and external, such as invading royal forces, colonial forms of knowledge, and, more recently, modernity, capitalism, tourism, and ecological change. Haḍimbā is revealed as a complex social agent, a dynamic ritual and conceptual compound, which both mirrors her devotees and serves as a platform for them to reflect on, debate, give meaning to, and sometimes resist their changing realities. The goddess herself, it emerges, also changes in the process. Drawing on diverse ethnographic and textual materials gathered during periods of extensive fieldwork from 2009 to 2017, this study is rich with myths, accounts of dramatic rituals, and descriptions of everyday life in the region. The book employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Haḍimbā from the ground up, or rather from the center out, portraying the goddess in varying contexts that radiate outward from her temple to local, regional, national, and indeed global spheres. The resulting account makes an important contribution to the study of Indian village goddesses, lived Hinduism, Himalayan Hinduism, and the rapidly growing field of religion and ecology.

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Book chapters on the topic "Kullu Valley"

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Chand, Bhim, Pawan Kumar Thakur, Renu Lata, Jagdish Chandra Kuniyal, and Vijay Kumar. "Assessment of Particulate Pollutants (PM10 and PM2.5), Its Relation with Vegetation Cover and Its Impacts on Apple Orchards in Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India." In Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Policy Decision Support, 283–97. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7731-1_13.

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Thakur, Isha, Renu Lata, Jagdish Chandra Kuniyal, and Sayanta Ghosh. "Assessing the Impacts of Anthropogenic Activities on Air Quality: A Study During the Lockdown in 2nd Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in the Kullu Valley of North-Western Himalaya." In Springer Proceedings in Physics, 675–86. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0308-3_53.

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Singh, Tej Vir, Masood A. Naqvi, and Gaitree Gowreesunkar. "What Tourism Can Do: The Fall of Pastoral Manali Resort in the Kulu Valley of the Indian Himalayas." In Managing Asian Destinations, 141–57. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8426-3_9.

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Halperin, Ehud. "Negotiating National Hinduism." In The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess, 165–210. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190913588.003.0006.

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The chapter explores a heated controversy that has developed in the Kullu Valley in recent decades, as blood sacrifices to Haḍimbā have come under severe theological, moral, and very practical attack. These sacrifices have turned into an arena for struggle over matters of cosmology, society, ethics, religious freedom, and political sovereignty. In the process, Haḍimbā’s own character has become part of the debate, as has her devotees’ perception of themselves and how they present themselves to others. Sacrifice to the goddess—its performance as well as its accompanying theological discourse—has thus become an arena in which local identity, of divine and human actors alike, is presented, debated, and reconstructed in ways that are mutually formative and closely intertwined.

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Halperin, Ehud. "Confronting the Global." In The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess, 211–42. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190913588.003.0007.

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As local residents report and scientific evidence shows, the Kullu Valley is warming up. This chapter analyzes practitioners’ interpretations of and engagement with the changing climate, as well as Haḍimbā’s centrality to their reasoning in this regard. It presents the holistic worldview held by Haḍimbā’s devotees, namely their notions about dharma and cosmic interconnectedness and the ways this worldview underlies their thoughts about and actions concerning the changing climate. It also traces how villagers associate the weather irregularities with the socioeconomic transformations that have taken place in their lives in recent years, following the introduction of modernity, capitalism, and tourism in the region, as well as their creeping doubts concerning the very validity of their holistic worldview. The chapter illustrates both the continuities and the shifts in how followers perceive Haḍimbā’s command over the weather and her agency more broadly.

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Searle, Mike. "Oceans and Continents." In Colliding Continents. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199653003.003.0006.

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Sitting atop a rickety Indian bus trundling up the Beas Valley to the delightful hill station of Manali in the Kulu Valley of Himachal Pradesh, peering between swaying bodies and piles of luggage, I caught my first glimpse of the snowy peaks of the Himalaya. Yes, those white streaks way up in the sky were not, after all, clouds: they were glints of sunlight on impossibly high and steep ice-fields plastered onto the sides of mountains that tore up into the sky. It was a sight to take one’s breath away and I knew instantly that this was going to be the start of a great adventure. We were a typical shoestring British student expedition of five friends who could fit easily into two overloaded rickshaws, heading for the mountains around the Tos Glacier. Mountaineers dream about climbing in the Himalaya. Since my earliest days of climbing the hills and crags of Snowdonia and northern Scotland, I had yearned to see and climb those magical Himalayan Mountains. Now here I was, and the reality of the Himalaya was even better than I imagined. I had taken three months off from my PhD studies on the geology of the Oman Mountains to go on this expedition. We had driven a Land Rover out from England to Muscat through a snowy Europe and across the Empty Quarter of Arabia from Syria and Jordan to the United Arab Emirates and Oman. After three months’ fieldwork in Oman I caught a passenger ship, the MV Dwarka, last of the British East India Company merchant vessels that plied the Gulf route from Basra via Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai, and Muscat to Karachi, and then travelled through Pakistan by train into India. That first expedition to Kulu was a revelation. We camped on the Tos Glacier, four days’ walk above the village of Manikarin in the Parbati Valley of eastern Kulu, for about four weeks. During that time the weather was perfect almost every day.

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Halperin, Ehud. "Getting There." In The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess, 13–36. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190913588.003.0002.

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This chapter provides a broad historical, cultural, and sociopolitical background on the goddess Haḍimbā, her community, and the region. It begins by describing a typical bus journey from Delhi to Manali, which introduces the reader to the area experientially and reproduces the point of view of visiting tourists and scholars alike. This is followed by a description of the “devtā system,” the indigenous religious tradition of this area, which is known as the Land of the Gods (Dev Bhūmi). There is an overview of the available sources for our knowledge about the Kullu Valley’s past and a brief history of its ruling dynasty. The chapter ends with a description of the recent introduction of modernity, capitalism, and tourism to the region and of how these have affected the local economy, sociopolitics, and religion, as well as the goddess Haḍimbā and her cult.

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Searle, Mike. "Continents in Collision: Kashmir, Ladakh, Zanskar." In Colliding Continents. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199653003.003.0007.

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To understand how the Himalaya were formed it seemed logical to start at the actual zone of plate collision, the Indus suture zone. Most of this collision zone runs across southern Tibet, which in the 1970s was almost impossible to travel through. Following Mao Tse-tung’s Red Army’s invasion and occupation of Tibet in October 1950, that region had remained firmly closed to all foreigners. In the western Himalaya the Indus suture zone runs right across the northernmost province of Ladakh. Ladakh used to be a part of southwestern Tibet before the British annexed it during the Raj. Leh, the ancient capital of Ladakh at 3,500 metres in the Indus Valley, was the final outpost of British India before the great trans-Himalayan barrier of the Karakoram Range. Only the Nubra Valley and the Tangtse Valley north of Leh were beyond the Indus, and these valleys led directly up to the desolate high plateau of Tibet. Leh was a major caravan route and a crossroads of high Asia, with double-humped dromedary camel caravans coming south from the Silk Route towns of Yarkhand and Khotan; Kashmiris and Baltis came from the west and Indian traders from the Hindu regions of Himachal and Chamba to the south. Ladakh, Zanskar, and Zangla were three ancient Himalayan kingdoms ruled by a Giapo, or King, each from a palace that resembled a small version of the Potala Palace in Lhasa. In 1978, when we were climbing in the mountains of Kulu, I had looked from our high summits across to the desert mountains of Lahoul and Zanskar, north of the main Himalayan watershed. Here, in the ancient Buddhist kingdoms of Zanskar and Ladakh lay wave upon wave of unexplored and unclimbed mountains. They lay north of the monsoon limits and in the rain shadow of the main Himalaya, so the vegetation was sparse, and the geology was laid bare. Flying north from Delhi, or east from Kashmir into Leh, the views were simply mesmerizing.

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Searle, Mike. "Frozen Rivers and Fault Lines." In Colliding Continents. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199653003.003.0010.

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After seven summer field seasons working in the north-western Himalaya in India, I had heard of a winter trade route that must rank as one of the most outlandish journeys in the Himalaya. The largely Buddhist Kingdoms of Ladakh and Zanskar are high, arid, mountainous lands to the north of the Greater Himalayan Range and in the rain shadow of the summer monsoon. Whereas the southern slopes of the Himalaya range from dense sub-tropical jungles and bamboo forests to rhododendron woods and magnificent alpine pastures carpeted in spring flowers, the barren icy lands to the north are the realm of the snow leopard, the yak, and the golden eagles and lammergeier vultures that soar overhead. The Zanskar Valley lies immediately north-east of the 6–7,000-metre-high peaks of the Himalayan crest and has about thirty permanent settlements, including about ten Buddhist monasteries. I had seen the Zanskar Ranges from the summit of White Sail in Kulu and later spent four summer seasons mapping the geology along the main trekking routes. In summer, trekking routes cross the Himalaya westwards to Kashmir, southwards to Himachal Pradesh, and northwards to Leh, the ancient capital of Ladakh. Winter snows close the Zanskar Valley from the outside world for up to six months a year when temperatures plummet to minus 38oC. Central Zanskar is a large blank on the map, virtually inaccessible, with steepsided jagged limestone mountains and deep canyons. The Zanskar River carves a fantastic gorge through this mountain range and for only a few weeks in the middle of winter the river freezes. The Chaddur, the walk along the frozen Zanskar River, takes about ten to twelve days from Zanskar to the Indus Valley and, in winter time, was the only way in or out before the road to Kargil was constructed. I mentioned this winter trek to Ben Stephenson during our summer fieldwork in Kishtwar and he stopped suddenly, turned around, and said ‘Mike we just have to do this trek!’ So the idea of a winter journey into Zanskar was born, and four of us set off from Oxford in January 1995.

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Conference papers on the topic "Kullu Valley"

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"An inventory study on Landslide Hazard Zonation of Kullu Valley of Central Himalayan zone, Himachal Pradesh, India." In International Academy of Engineers. International Academy of Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.15242/iae.iae0315417.

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Castagnaro, Corrado. "The interpretation of the vernacular in the modern work of Gherardo Bosio: the Albanian experience." In HERITAGE2022 International Conference on Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/heritage2022.2022.15536.

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The essay investigates the relationship between some exponents of the Modern Movement and their architectural expression with the vernacular tradition. Gherardo Bosio (1903-1941) was one of the most emblematic architects of the modern transformation of Tirana. His work represents the desire to construct the image of the new city while preserving the relationship with the characters and values of tradition. Bosio's work can be ascribed to the particular trend of the Modern Movement that works in continuity with time, tradition and context. The material and immaterial cultural value of these architectures, in addition to the loss of part of the historical vernacular heritage that happens in some cases, represents the chance for the community to recognize and identify itself in a given historical and cultural contest. The relevance of the knowledge and enhancement of these assets aims to preserve the identity of a community from a process of globalization and homologation that is destroying its traces. The studio investigates the architecture of Gherardo Bosio, in his experience in Tirana. Significant in this work is the reference and reinterpretation of the vernacular Albanian Kulla. This is typical Albanian architecture, a sort of tower-house, built with compact forms and a massive character. It was oriented towards defence against possible enemy attacks. The essay investigates the contribution of vernacular architecture in some cases of Modern culture, in an effort to identify a national identity: a modernity that brings together past and future, tradition and innovation. Today, with the right distance in time, these architectures represent the contribution of the Modern in the writing of the palimpsest. These works are relevant in the definition and recognition of the characters on which to structure the values of society. The dissemination of knowledge and appreciation is useful in the constitution of a sense of local community.

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