Topic: Himachal Pradesh

History

320-540 ce), and the Mughal (1526-1761), all emerging in the Indo-Gangetic Plain-sought to exercise varying degrees of control over trade and pilgrimage routes into the area and between India and Tibet across the Himalayas.. Subsequently, Himachal Pradesh was constituted as a province ...

Chamba

The town lies on the Ravi River between two mountain ridges. Chamba has some industry, including cloth weaving and the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, and has an active trade in agricultural produce. The independent princely state of Chamba was founded in the 6th ...
More than 120 Hindu worshippers were killed Sunday in a stampede during a religious festival in the northern Indian hill state of Himachal Pradesh, police said. "One hundred and twenty-three people have died," said D.S Minhas, the state's additional director general of ...