Rasol Pass
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Rasol Pass, also spelled Rashol, is a mountain pass in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, India, named in accounts of the routes between the Malana Valley and the village of Rasol in the Parvati Valley. A linguistic profile of the Kanashi speech community published in 2021 states that the "Malana valley is connected by Rashol, a mountain pass".[1] The collection documentation of the Zomia Collective places the Oridhar fields of Rasol "along the trek to Rasol Pass, reaching 3000m".[2] Neither source gives the pass's height or position. Both valleys are landrace cannabis growing areas.
Route
A resurvey of Malana village, made in 2016–17 and published in 2018, lists five approaches to the village. One is a track from Manikaran by Rasol, 16 km; the report does not name a pass on it. The others are two tracks over the Chanderkhani Pass and roads from Jari and from Bhuntar.[3]: §2.9 The same report places Manikaran, Kasol and Rasol to the east of Malana.[3]: §2.1 The collection documentation places Rasol "at 2600m above Chalal".[2]
Fields along the trek
The same documentation counts the Oridhar fields, on the trek to the pass, among "some of the highest-altitude cultivated fields in the valley". It records that police pressure had led many farmers to move their fields "higher into the mountains".[2] The accessions collected from Rasol's fields are listed under Rasol (appellation).
The mountain of Rasol
In a 2016 report on Malana, the Associated Press wrote that a statue of the village god Jamlu was to be carried on a pilgrimage "across the daunting mountain of Rasol to bathe it in holy water in a temple in the neighboring valley", a journey of five days on which one man from each household had to go.[4] The report does not mention a pass or name the temple.
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References
- ↑ Dattamajumdar, Satarupa (2021). "Kanashi Speech Community: An Ethno-Linguistic Profile". Quest-The Journal of UGC-HRDC Nainital. 15 (1–3): 65–74. doi:10.5958/2249-0035.2021.00005.x.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Rasol". Zomia Collective. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kalia, Arvind; Singh, D. V.; Kumar, Anil; Singh, Sujan (December 2018). Socio-Economic Resurvey of Village Malana in Himachal Pradesh, India (PDF) (Report). AERC Report, Study No. 164. Shimla: Agro-Economic Research Centre, Himachal Pradesh University.
- ↑ "In remote Indian village, cannabis is its only livelihood". Dawn. Associated Press. 5 December 2016.