The town of Chamba, the capital of the ancient Himalayan hill state of Chamba, is situated on a series of plateaus on the right bank of the Ravi river valley between the Dhauladhar and Zanskar ranges, south of the Inner Himalayas. The town is liberally endowed with a number of monuments of varying antiquity. Chamba houses temples, palaces, colonial era buildings of the British period and some large open greens known as chowgans (rare for a hill town). Information and Images: Manu Bhatnagar, ‘Chamba : Urban Evolution of an Ancient Town in the Himalayas’, Context, Vol V, Issue 1, 2008.