About the Book: Historical Documents from High Western Himalaya: Lahul and the
Areas Surrounding
The present work is a collection of karchhags, a kind of document prepared at
the moment of celebration of a ceremony held in honour of a certain important
person deceased in some wealthy household, which records the salient facts of
the occasion. They are as important as any other historical document because
they record the name of the prominent historical figure of the time in the area
and are closely dateable. They cover uniformly the three valleys consisting of
the four cultures of Lahul for the period starting from the sixteenth century
continuously to