The Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission, based upon the Collections and Notes of the late Dr. F. Stoliczka. Published by Order of the Government of India. (Calcutta, 1878–79.) ...

A curtain raiser for Kashmir Life's Humaira Nabi directed 15-spiosde show Kashmir: The Silk Route Tales presented by Iqra Akhoon.

This subservience to Karakorum lasts until the accession of Alughu. Although the circumstances are not entirely clear, it seems that while the Chaghatayids control Turkestan and Transoxiana, the ...

Sultan Said Khan (Uyghur: سۇلتان سەىد جان, ) ruled the Yarkent Khanate from September 1514 to July 1533. He was born in the late 15th century in Moghulistan, and he was a direct descendant of the ...

To propagate the Buddhist philosophy in Ladakh, Gilgit, Yarkand, Kashgar, and other regions, Kashmiri monks and scholars bravely traversed formidable mountains. (P N Ganhar) Within India ...

The map of the Second Yarkand Mission, accompanying Trotter's report to the Royal Geographical Society. Trotter died on 25 September 1919 at Lucas Green Manor, Chobham, Surrey. Henry Trotter was the ...

To the north of Indra Col (Siachen Glacier’s head) is the Urdok Glacier which flows into the Shaksgam river (which merges into the Yarkand river), making it a part of the Tarim basin in the Chinese ...

These passes lie on the watershed between the Hunza river flowing into the Indus system in India and the Qara Chukar river flowing into the Yarkand system in Sinkiang. From the Khunjerab Pass the ...

It then shows pictures of martyrs indicated as "al-Turkistani", or men from Turkestan, the name many Uighurs use for Xinjiang. One of the men speaking has an accent from Yarkand, close to the old Silk ...

"I felt that Xinjiang's ethnic diversity and integration have a profound history after visiting the Yarkand relics. It's gratifying to see these traditions being inherited and carried forward in ...

In September 1949, prominent Nationalist officials posted to the far northwestern province of Xinjiang surrendered to the Chinese Communists without a fight. The approximately 71,000 Nationalist ...