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KraVseR
8th July 2013, 01:21 PM
Hello! Please, help me find any information about warriors of Baltistan on XIX century. Organisation, weapons, uniforms or dress, etc.
ariel
8th July 2013, 11:02 PM
What do you mean? Balujistan? Baltic-stan:-)?
Timo Nieminen
9th July 2013, 12:55 AM
Heath covers 19th c. Baltistan in his Central Asia and the Himalayan Kingdoms volume, http://www.amazon.com/CENTRAL-HIMALAYAN-KINGDOMS-Nineteenth-Century-Asia/dp/1901543013
ariel
9th July 2013, 03:02 AM
I must have been clueless... Sorry.
Never knew that such a thing existed.
AJ1356
9th July 2013, 05:01 PM
I saw this a few days ago, maybe you get an idea of the lifestyle from the pics.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/world/2013/07/130706_l13_pics_life_in_baltistan.shtml
KraVseR
9th July 2013, 05:06 PM
I saw this a few days ago, maybe you get an idea of the lifestyle from the pics.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/world/2013/07/130706_l13_pics_life_in_baltistan.shtml
Thanks.