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The area extends ‘from the Hindukush valleys and the uppermost Oxus right across the whole length of the Tārīm Basin to the province of Kan-su on the western marches of China proper.’¹ This region covers ‘practically the whole of that vast drainageless belt between the Pāmīrs in the west and the Pacific watershed in the east, which, for close on a thousand years, formed the special meeting-ground of Chinese civilization, introduced by trade and political penetration, and of Indian culture propagated by Buddhism.’ This desert region contains ‘relics of that ancient civilization which the joint influences of Buddhist India, China, and Hellenized Near East had fostered in the scattered oases of those remote Central Asian passage lands.’