ABSTRACT
An Indian intending to travel to the Pamirs from the Kashmir Valley, Ladakh, or Himachal Pradesh could take the route of his choice. As Janet Rizvi has pointed out, ‘it was not so much a route as a whole complex of routes’.2 From the Kashmir Valley one might go to Badakshan via Gilgit, with the option to move further to Afghanistan, and to modern Uzbekistan along the Oxus River. ereaer the trade marts of Samarkand and Bukhara are within easy reach; one may journey to Yarkand as well. is route enabled an Indian to cover a wide territory especially if he decided to return via Kabul, Peshawar, and Attock to reach the Punjab and then enter Kashmir and Ladakh. An enterprising trader could exploit business possibilities available in the area to earn prot.
