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The book "Heritage of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh" brings out the fact that though the three provinces of J& K are different geographic, cultural and linguistic entitles, age told traditions bind them todgether. While Ladakh is predominently Buddhist, Kashmir and Jammu are almost entirely inhabited by Muslims and Hindus respectively. This shared universe of discourse has been traversed by this volume, which ranges across geology, archaeology, histroy, art, architecture, herbal medicine, inscriptions, manuscripts, theatre, religion and corollary subjects. A specially valuable dimension of the volume is its accent on historiography.