Jammu, Aug. 8 -- Share Tweet Share By Neeraj Tickoo Bharat Nanda's Beyond the Himalayas: Rediscovering India's Forgotten Geography is not a conventional history of kingdoms, wars, and rulers. It is a book about geography, memory, and movement. Its most distinctive feature is the way it uses old place names, caravan routes, rivers, and mountain passes to reconstruct a world in which the Himalayas were not simply barriers but corridors connecting India with Tibet, the Tarim Basin, and Central Asia. The book begins by challenging the modern tendency to view the Himalayas as a rigid frontier. For centuries, merchants, Buddhist monks, pilgrims, translators, and scholars crossed these mountains carrying manuscripts, textiles, horses, medicines,...