Kangra Tea Pahari Painting Pottery Dharamsala Himachal Pradesh

Kangra district — the most populous in Himachal Pradesh — contains Dharamsala and McLeod Ganj (the Dalai Lama's residence since 1960 and the seat of the Tibetan Government in Exile), making it the global centre of Tibetan Buddhist culture in the diaspora. Kangra tea, grown on the lower Himalayan slopes of the Kangra valley, is one of India's oldest GI-tagged teas — grown at 900–1,400m in the Dhauladhar foothills, producing an orthodox green and black tea with muscatel character. The Kangra school of Pahari painting (18th century miniature painting tradition) depicting Radha-Krishna, Ramayana, and Mahabharata episodes in jewel-bright colours on hand-made paper is one of India's great regional art traditions.