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Ladakh: Culture, History, and Development between Himalaya and Karakoram. Martin Van Beek, Kristoffer Brix Bertelsen, and Paul Pedersen, eds. Oxford: Alden Press, 1999. 414 pp., photographs, maps, index.
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