Trade Routes between Bhutan, Assam, and Tibet

* Ray, Indrajit and Ratna Sarkar. 2005. Reconstructing Nineteenth Century Trade Route between Bhutan and Assam: Evidences from British Political Missions. Journal of Bhutan Studies, (2005) Vol. 13.
http://www.thdl.org/texts/reprints/jbs/JBS_13_01.pdf

* Pommaret, Francoise. 2000. Ancient Trade Partners: Bhutan, Cooch Bihar and Assam (17th - 19th centuries). Journal of Bhutan Studies, (2000) Vol. 2, No. 1.
http://www.thdl.org/texts/reprints/jbs/JBS_02_01_02.pdf

* Ray, Indrajit and Ratna Sarkar. 2006. Two Nineteenth Century Trade Routes in the Eastern Himalayas: the Bhutanese trade with Tibet and Bengal. Journal of Bhutan Studies, Volume 15, Winter 2006, pp. 56-83.
http://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/admin/pubFiles/15-3.pdf

* Dorji Penjore. 2003. On the Mule Track to Dagana. Monograph # 1, The Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimphu, Bhutan
http://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/admin/pubFiles/monoDagana.pdf
pp. 1-56
[...] The ancient footpath from Thimphu to Dagana was once an important highway in medieval Bhutan. Before the construction of motor roads in the early 1960s, it served as an important traditional highway between the southern and western Bhutan.

This traditional zhunglam was earlier trodden by deities and monks, penlop and government officials, lamas and laities, cattle and herders, porters and horses, village traders and farmers, rilang and many wild animals. The people of Dagana in particular used this road for purpose of government, business and pastoral movements. They also travelled this road to farm their summer land in Genyekha, and to pay revenues to the government. Even today, cattle herders, farmers, village businessmen and tourists continue to tread the road. [...]

Content...............................................................................................i

Author's Note....................................................................................ii
Introduction......................................................................................iii
One: Thimphu to Genyekha...............................................................1
Two: Genyekha to Kepchen.............................................................10
Three: Kepchen to Labatama...........................................................11
Four: Labatama................................................................................14
Five: Labatama to Northogang.........................................................30
Six: Northogang to Kunga...............................................................36
Seven: Kunga to Daga Dzong..........................................................43
Bibliography.....................................................................................56

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Trading routes to China across the Himalaya and attendant ranges - Kibithoo to Karakorum

http://bameduniya.tripod.com/tradingroutes.html
21 Sep 2006

bameduniya.tripod.com, Waltham, MA, US

Self-description:
"The Himalaya are 2700 kms or so long and about 300 kms wide range between the Big Bend of the Tsangpo in the SE and the Big Bend of the Indus in the NW. [...] Trade routes to China pierced this topographical tangle in countless places. Kibithoo, in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh, is the easternmost and lowest direct route into Tibet, China. Karakorum pass in the north of Ladakh is the highest usable route to Sinkiang, China. The greater portion of Tibet's population lives in the 100 to 160 kms broad belt to its south on either side of the Brahmaputra, the Satluj and the Indus. [...] Some of the trade routes from NE to NW to Tibet & Sinkiang are listed below. Of these only 2 are functioning officially but both countries goods continue to flow across the borders from several places."

Site contents:
* Arunachal (details of 7 routes); * Sikkim (2 routes); * Uttar Pradesh (4 routes); * Himachal Pradesh (4 routes); * Ladakh (8 routes), * A 1992 list of 29 goods that can be "exported freely" to China as border barter trade through the only two Land Customs Stations (Garbyang in Uttaranchal and Shipki La in Himachal) open so far along the entire Indo-China border.

[A highly informative, packed with geographic details document by Romesh Bhattacharji published online sometime between 2003 and 2007 - ed.]

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