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 Ladakh

Ladakh is a locale controlled by India as an association region, and comprising a piece of the bigger Kashmir area, which has been the subject of question between India, Pakistan, and China since 1947. It is lined by the Tibet Autonomous Region toward the east, the Indian province of Himachal Pradesh toward the south, both the Indian-managed association domain of Jammu and Kashmir. It reaches out from the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram reach toward the north to the principle Great Himalayas toward the south. The eastern end, comprising of the uninhabited Aksai Chin fields, is asserted by the Indian Government as a feature of Ladakh, and has been under Chinese control since 1962. Until 2019, Ladakh was a locale of the Indian-directed province of Jammu and Kashmir. In August 2019, the Parliament of India passed a demonstration by which Ladakh turned into an association region on 31 October 2019. 

In the past Ladakh acquired significance from its essential area at the junction of significant shipping lanes, yet as the Chinese specialists shut the boundaries between Tibet Autonomous Region and Ladakh during the 1960s, global exchange dwindled. Since 1974, the Government of India has effectively supported the travel industry in Ladakh. As Ladakh is a piece of the deliberately significant Kashmir area, the Indian military keeps a solid presence in the district. 

The biggest town in Ladakh is Leh, trailed by Kargil, every one of which central command a locale. The Leh locale contains the Indus, Shyok and Nubra stream valleys. The Kargil locale contains the Suru, Dras and Zanskar stream valleys. The fundamental populated areas are the stream valleys, yet the mountain slants additionally uphold the peaceful Changpa travelers. The principle strict gatherings in the locale are Muslims (mostly Shia) (46%), Tibetan Buddhists (40%), Hindus (12%) and others (2%). Ladakh is quite possibly the most meagerly populated districts in India. As its way of life and history are firmly identified with that of Tibet, it is known as the "Little Tibet". 

Ladakh is the biggest and the second least crowded association domain of India.

History

Rock carvings found in numerous pieces of Ladakh demonstrate that the territory has been possessed from Neolithic occasions. Ladakh's soonest occupants comprised of a blended Indo-Aryan populace of Mons and Dards, who discover notice underway of Herodotus, and traditional essayists just as the Indian Puranas. Around the first century, Ladakh was a piece of the Kushan Empire. Buddhism spread into western Ladakh from Kashmir in the second century. The seventh century Buddhist explorer Xuanzang portrays the area in his records. Xuanzang's term of Ladakh is Mo-lo-thus, which has been recreated by scholastics as *Malasa, *Marāsa, or *Mrāsa, which is accepted to have been the first name of the area. 

For a large part of the principal thousand years, the western Tibet involved Zhangzhung kingdom(s), which rehearsed the Bon religion. Sandwiched among Kashmir and Zhangzhung, Ladakh is accepted to have been then again heavily influenced by one or other of these forces. Scholastics discover strong effects of Zhangzhung language and culture in "upper Ladakh" (from the middle section of the Indus valley toward the southeast). The penultimate leader of Zhangzhung is said to have been from Ladakh.

From around 660 CE, Central Tibet and China began challenging the "four posts" of the Tarim Basin (present day Xinjiang), a battle that endured three centuries. Zhangzhung succumbed to Tibet's desire in c. 634 and vanished for ever. Kashmir's Karkota Empire and the Umayyad Caliphate too joined the challenge for Xinjiang soon subsequently. Baltistan and Ladakh were at the focal point of these battles. Scholastics surmise from the inclination of Ladakhi narratives that Ladakh may have owed its essential loyalty to Tibet during this time, however that it was more political than social. Ladakh stayed Buddhist and its way of life was not at this point Tibetan.

In the ninth century, Tibet's ruler Langdarma was killed and Tibet divided. Kyide Nyimagon, Langdarma's incredible grandson, fled to West Tibet c. 900 CE, and established another West Tibetan realm at the core of the old Zhangzhung, presently called Ngari in the Tibetan language. 

Nyimagon's oldest child, Lhachen Palgyigon, is accepted to have vanquished the areas toward the north, including Ladakh and Rutog. After the passing of Nyimagon, his realm was split between his three children, Palgyigon accepting Ladakh, Rutog, Thok Jalung and a zone alluded to as "Demchok" (perhaps revolved around the town of Demchok). The subsequent child got Guge–Purang (called "Ngari Korsum") and the third child got Zanskar and Spiti (toward the southwest of Ladakh). This three-path division of Nyimagon's realm was perceived as notable and recollected in the accounts of the relative multitude of three locales as an establishing story. 

Between the 1380s and mid 1510s, numerous Islamic evangelists engendered Islam and converted the Ladakhi public. Sayyid Ali Hamadani, Sayyid Muhammad Nur Baksh and Mir Shamsuddin Iraqi were three significant Sufi preachers who proliferated Islam to local people. Mir Sayyid Ali was the first to make Muslim proselytes in Ladakh and is regularly depicted as the author of Islam in Ladakh. A few mosques were underlying Ladakh during this period, remembering for Mulbhe, Padum and Shey, the capital of Ladakh. His primary devotee, Sayyid Muhammad Nur Baksh additionally proliferated Islam to Ladakhis and the Balti public quickly changed over to Islam. Noorbakshia Islam is named after him and his supporters are just found in Baltistan and Ladakh. During his childhood, Sultan Zain-ul-Abidin ousted the spiritualist Sheik Zain Shahwalli for demonstrating discourtesy to him. The sheik at that point went to Ladakh and converted numerous individuals to Islam. In 1505, Shamsuddin Iraqi, a prominent Shia researcher, visited Kashmir and Baltistan. He helped in spreading Shia Islam in Kashmir and changed over the mind dominant part of Muslims in Baltistan to his way of thinking.