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Kinnaur

Also known as Kinnaur district

Kinnaur is a mountainous district in north-eastern Himachal Pradesh, India, on the border with Tibet, crossed by the Sutlej river. Its people, the Kinnauras, combine Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Historically part of the state of Bashahr, it lay on trade routes linking the western Himalaya with Tibet, and its headquarters is Reckong Peo.

Kinnaur
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Bashahr State

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