Ladakh', one of the outlying governorships of Cashmere, in the valley of the Upper Indus, and behind the great central range of the Himalayas. The Ladakhis, some 20,000, are of Turanian stock and Buddhists in religion. The capital is Leh (q.v.). See CASHMERE.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 478
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