Question

The Hindustan - Tibetan road connects:
A. Kalimpong with Lasa
B. Shimla with Gangtok
C. Leh with Lhasa
D. Gangtok with Gyantse

Answer 1

Hint:
> The road starts from Ambala in Haryana as the outskirts of National Highway 1.
> The village of Chitkul in the district of Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, is the last inhabited village on this road along the Indo-Tibet border.
> The road reaches the border town of Khab and then crosses Namgial for a short distance to the Shipkila Pass and finally enters Tibet.

Complete answer:
Hindustan-Tibet Route, also known as National Highway 22, leads to Kinnaur and presents an idyllic image of life above 12,000 feet. People are as rough as the ground, and Buddhism prevails alongside Hinduism, a place dotted with monasteries and temples.

The British Governor General of India, Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856), ordered the building of the Hindustan Tibet Road to be commissioned in June 1850. Lord Dalhousie wanted to develop trade relations with Tibet, and this seems to be the real reason for opening up a road other than his surveillance of links to distant regions under British influence.

Then Commander-in-Chief Sir Charles Napier built a road map and massive machinery at the hands of the East India Company was pressed into operation and halfway down the nineteenth century, operating on what was then called the Great Hindu Tibet Road. Beyond Shimla, to Shipki La Pass at the border, the route included a length of 228 miles via Shipki-la to Shipki village in Tibet.

The following are the options:

Jelep La connects Kalimpong with Lhasa. Thus, Option A is an incorrect option.

Shimla with Gangtok is connected by the Hindustan - Tibetan road. Thus, Choice B is the correct answer.

Leh with Lhasa is connected by the Silk Road. Thus Option C is also an incorrect alternative.

Nathu La connects Sikkim with Gyantse. Thus, Option D is also not the right option.

Therefore, the correct answer is B

Note:
> The Hindustan-Tibetan road has been featured as one of the world's deadliest routes in the History Channel.
> Much of the Hindustan Tibet Road passes through the Kinnaur Valley, a land of mythology.
> 'Shipki La' is the pass that the protagonists crossed to get to India in 'Seven Years in Tibet'.