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Rampur, Himachal Pradesh

Rampur Bushahr es una ciudad y un consejo municipal en el distrito de Shimla en el estado indio de Himachal Pradesh . Está a unos 130 km de Shimla y está bien conectado con NH 5 que pasa por Theog , Narkanda y Kumarsain .

Historia

Valle de Sutlej de Rampur ca. 1857

El principado de Bushahr (también conocido como Bashahar, Bushahar, Bashahr) estuvo una vez entre los más grandes de los veintiocho estados de Shimla Hill bajo la administración del Raj británico deseoso de invertir en el comercio regional y transcontinental y explotar los recursos del Himalaya. Atrapado en una de las empresas imperiales británicas, fue sometido a vicisitudes políticas y económicas, accediendo a la Unión India en 1947. El 8 de marzo de 1948, junto con otros veinte estados principescos montañosos de Punjab y Shimla, Bashahr firmó un acuerdo que dio lugar a su inclusión en el estado indio de Himachal Pradesh.

Rampur, un pequeño municipio situado a 1.005 metros en la margen izquierda del Sutlej , sirvió como capital de invierno de Bushahar. Al estar bien conectado con las principales rutas comerciales que unían los mercados indios con Asia Central y el Tíbet, bullía de actividad mercantil, especialmente en noviembre durante la feria Lavi, el evento comercial más grande en el norte del Himalaya que atraía a comerciantes de Cachemira , Ladakh, Yarkand y el Continente indio. Respecto a los orígenes de la feria Rampuri, el Censo de la India (1961) informa:

" Hace unos trescientos años, durante el régimen de Raja Kehar Singh de Bushahr, se firmó un tratado comercial entre el estado de Bushahr y el Tíbet... Se intercambiaron caballos del Tíbet y espadas de Bushahr en señal de esta amistad. En el tratado estaba escrito que sus relaciones amistosas continuarían hasta este momento... Desde entonces, se presume que las relaciones comerciales aumentaron y eventualmente se llevó a cabo [la] feria Lavi " .

Rampur was also located along pilgrimage routes to sacred sites in western Tibet shared by Hindus, Bön and Buddhists alike, i.e., Mount Kailash and Lake Mansarovar. Missionary and pilgrimage activities, intensified by trading possibilities, created the conditions for Tibetan Buddhism to take a firm stronghold in these borderland regions. Twenty-two kilometres from the village of Namgya in upper Kinnaur, laid the Shipki pass which linked caravan routes to and from western Tibet. This treacherous transcontinental passage must have been in use from ancient times, for among the ruined castles reported by Francke at Shipki village, there were no living memories of the origins of mKar gog, the oldest of them built above the village in cyclopean style. Rampur also has Hydro Power Stations namely, Nathpa Jhakri Power Station (1500 MW) and Rampur Hydro Power Station (412 MW) by SJVN Ltd. A second castle, known as Seng ge mkhar, is said to have received its crooked ground plan “through a race round its base executed in opposite directions by a poisonous snake and a scorpion,” and was built, in all probability, during the Ladakhi occupation of mNga’ ris by orders of King Seng ge rnam rgyal (1570–1642) and called after him.[2]

Geography

Rampur is located at 31°27′N 77°38′E / 31.45°N 77.63°E / 31.45; 77.63.[3] It has an average elevation of 1021 metres (4429 feet). It is a very beautiful place situated at the bank of the Satluj river. It borders on the north with Nirmand, on the west with Kumarsain and Anni, on the east with Kinnaur and on the south with Rohru. The city is nearby to popular places like Jhakri, Sarahan Bushahr, Green valley Bara Bish and Shraikoti to name a few. The city is also the home to Asia's Largest underground Hydro Power Project - The Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Power Station built by Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd (formerly known as Nathpa Jhakri Power Corporation) at Jhakri with dam sight at nathpa in Kinnaur and world's deepest Surge shaft at a Shah (22 km from Rampur).

See also

References

  1. ^ "Rampur Population Census 2011". Census 2011 India. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  2. ^ Halkias, Georgios (2009). “Loss of Memory and Continuity of Praxis in Rampur-Bashahr: an Itinerant Study of Seventeenth-Century Tibetan Murals.” In Contemporary Visions in Tibetan Studies, eds. Brandon Dotson et al. Chicago: Serindia Publications, pp. 139–155.[1]
  3. ^ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Rampur

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