GANGOTRI NATIONAL PARK_GARTANG GALI_BHAIRAVGHAATI_GANGOTRI_UTTARKASHI
GANGOTRI NATIONAL PARK DOES HAVE SOME PECULIAR SPECIES OF BIRDS, I DONT KNOW ABOUT. NEITHER I TRIED TO FIND THEM NOR CAPTURED ANY PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PHOTO BOARDS.
I WENT TO THE PARK TO SEE THE “GARTANG GALI “, THIS GALI OR NARROW ROUTE WAS ORIGINALLY BUITT BY THE PATHANS OF LAHORE/PESHAVAR TO NOURISH TRADE BETWEEN INDIA AND CHINA, THIS TRADE ROUTE WAS CLOSED AFTER THE INDO CHINA WAR, THE WOODEN BRIDGE TYPE NARROW ROUTE WAS RECONSTRUCTED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO FOSTER TOURISM.
I WAS CAUGHT HOLD OF A SPIRIT WHICH WAS ABOUT TO DRAG ME TO THE VALLEY, I SAT DOWN AND CHANTED FEW MANTRA’S AND THE SPIRIT LEFT ME OR MADE ME FEEL AS COMFORTABLE AS BEFORE.
THE PLACE IS KNOW AS BHAIRAVGHATI, THERE IS A SMALL BHAIRAV TEMPLE NEAR AND A SHIVA TEMPLE AT A PLACE KNOWN AS ” LANKA “.
SOMEONE TOLD ME THE HISTORY OF GANGOTRI TEMPLE, ACCORDING TO HIM THE CLAN WHO RULES THE LAND OWNS THE TEMPLE, INITIALLY THE ORIGINAL DESCENDENTS IE THE PAHAADI’S WHO HAVE THEIR ORIGIN FROM NEPAL HIMALAYAS OWNED THE TEMPLE, THEN GURKHA’S ATTACKED UTTARAKHAND AND MASSACRED PEPOLE AND OWNED THE GANGOTRI TEMPLE, THEN PEOPLE FROM RAJASTHAAN DEFEATED THE GURKHAS AND GAVE THE PAHAADI’S THEIR LAND AND THE TEMPLE, BRITISHMEN HAD NO INTEREST IN THE TEMPLE, NO MUSLIM INVADER INVADED HIMALAYAS.
RIGHT NOW GOVERNMENT OF UTTARAKHAND OWNS THE TEMPLE WHICH IS DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED BY ALL OF THE DENIZENS OF UTTARAKHAND BE IT NEPAALI’S, GURKHA’S OR RAJASTHAANI’S.
YES IN UTTARAKHAND’S DEMOGRAPHY, THERE ARE 65% PEOPLE WHO CAME THERE AND SETTLED FROM RAJASTHAN.
