The Sun-worship in Himachal has been discussed here, based on archaeological data in the form of coins, inscriptions, temples and sculptures.
A study of a copperplate (dated 1559 AD) issued by Raja Bahadur Singh of Kulu on the occasion of the marriage of his three daughters Sunu, Ganga and Rango. It records a grant of land at the village of Hat near Bajaura and other localities in Kulu. The grantee was Pandit Ramapati, the Rajguru to the Raja Ganeshvarman of Chamba. The language of the plate is Sanskrit written in an early form of Tankari/Takari script, called devāśesh in Chamba.
सांस्कृतिक अवशेषों का समन्वित एवं सौष्ठव पूर्ण संग्रह केवल उन्हीं स्थलों पर उपलब्ध होता है जहां सांस्कृतिक जन-समुदायों ने जमकर निर्माण कार्य किया हो एवं भौगोलिक दृष्टि से सांस्कृतिक निर्माण कार्य के लिए स्थल-विशेष को उपयुक्त पाया हो। कुल्लू की देवघाटी में बजौरा या हाट (हाट बाजार) अनेकानेक संस्कृतियों का प्रवेश द्वार रहा है। जब त्रिगर्त की ओर से कुल्लू घाटी में उतरने वाली संस्कृतियों ने व्यासा के उद्गम को पाने का उपक्रम किया, हाट बजौरा इन संस्कृतियों का स्वाभाविक अध्यागत बना।
Of the first wave of village studies ethnographers, it was Colin Rosser who chose what was—physically and psychologically—perhaps the most challenging location to undertake fieldwork. After graduating from the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, Rosser joined the newly created Dept of Cultural Anthropology at SOAS in 1950 to study for a PhD under the supervision of Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. Perhaps because he had served as a Gurkha officer in India in the Second World War, Rosser favoured the Himalayas as his PhD field site and he remained attached to the region for the rest of his working life.
“Major William Edmund Hay is a largely forgotten figure, known only for being the first Assistant Commissioner of Kulu and the first European resident of Naggar Castle.1 It was only three years ago when Hay’s greatest achievement came to light, with the publication of a book by Dr Diana Lange, Read more…
The administration of Kullu in the times of Rajas was broken up into provinces called ‘waziris’. A ‘waziri’ was divided into ‘kothis’, each of which further had two to five subdivisions called ‘phatis’. Each ‘phati’ had, depending on the population density, up to twenty separate villages within it. The Waziris were governed by civil governors called Wazirs who answered to the Prime Minister (Chauntra Wazir) of the Raja. In addition, the ‘kothis’ in a Waziri employed a sizable staff of officials and subordinates, all of whom were appointed by the Raja himself.
प्रस्तुत लेख में विभिन्न प्रकाशित सामग्री से एकत्रित जानकारी के आधार पर कुल्लू की एक छोटी सी रियासत की स्थापना तथा विघटन का वर्णन है, जिसका एक बड़ा भू-भाग आज लौगा और लग-वैली के नाम से जाना जाता है। 1. पृष्ठभूमि सुकेत राज्य, ईस्वी सन् 1240 के आसपास सुकेत के Read more…
A unique and fabulous sculpture of Ganga, the river goddess personified, was found in 1905 at the Sandhya Devi temple of Jagatsukh (Kulu) by archeologist Hirananda Shastri. In his paper ‘Historical Documents of Kulu,’ he mentioned the sculpture briefly, writing: “The only relics of the former prosperity of the [Jagatsukh] Read more…
This is a reproduction of the paper “Historical Documents of Kulu” by Hiranand Shastri published in the Annual Report (1911) of Archaeological Survey of India for the year 1907-08. KULU is a sub-division of the Kangra district of the Panjab and comprises the Upper Bias Valley, Waziri Rupi, Saraj, Lahul Read more…
The 1,000-year-old Trilokinath temple (8th-9th century A.D. ) is located in the Chandrabhaga valley of Himachal Pradesh’s Lahul-Spiti district. The temple is located on a hill in the heart of Tunde (Tune) village, known in Tibetan as Re-phag. It is a prominent Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage site, regarded as an Read more…
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