Word: ladakh
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...border agreement with Peking ceding some 1,300 sq. mi. of Kashmir to China. Peking has since linked up the old "silk route" highway from Sinkiang province to the city of Gilgit in Pakistani Kashmir with an all-weather macadam motor highway running down to the northern region of Ladakh near the cease-fire line. Should Indian troops get anywhere near China's highway or try to grasp its portion of Kashmir, New Delhi could expect to have a has sle with Peking on its hands...
...makes up her own mind. For months, many of her political aides have been urging her to wait until 1972, when her full five-year term expires, before calling new parliamentary elections. Last week, when she returned from a visit to Indian troops who guard the icy wastes of Ladakh in the Himalayas, Jawaharlal Nehru's strong-willed daughter announced that she was dissolving parliament immediately and scheduling elections for early March. The political campaign that promises to be the most fiercely fought in India's 25 years of independence will be decided by the largest electorate ever...
...been court painter to the Maharajah of Kashmir. From his youth, Singh himself had been enchanted by the graceful ancient sculptures of India, photographed them assiduously even as he studied for a diplomatic career. Later, in his diplomatic role, he accompanied the late Jawaharlal Nehru on a visit to Ladakh and there saw paintings and sculptures that few outsiders had ever seen before; and he had comparable luck in Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. The divergence from traditional Indian art fascinated...
Resuming Arms. At week's end New Delhi was astir with reports of Red Chinese troop movements, not only on the Sikkim border but far to the west in Ladakh as well. In Washington, Indian Ambassador B. K. Nehru strode into Secretary of State Dean Rusk's office to ask for resumption of U.S. arms shipments...
...village near Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, Indian police fought off a night attack by "hundreds" of Pakistani infiltrators armed with mortars, light machine guns and Sten guns. On the winding highway between Srinagar and Leh, a vital link to Indian forces manning the Communist Chinese border in Ladakh, a 14-man police detail guarding a wooden bridge clashed with night raiders...