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This book incorporates an in-depth and detailed study of glacial and fluvial processes and forms of Lidder Valley, Kashmir. The characteristic landscape features and their ensemble are sought to be explained in a supple, pliant and lucid manner through the application of an empirical and genetic approach. Such an approach also includes the evaluation of mass balances estimates of existing glaciers, a detailed systematic analysis of different erosional and depositional features of glacial and fluvial landscape and reconstruction of palaeogeographic landscape from fossil flora. Pollen analysis of exposed glacial bog sediment, and Lichenometric and geomorphologic evidences, also contribute to the paleographic landscape reconstruction. Besides incorporating data from diverse sources like hydrology, geology and climatology, the author has proposed some models in each of the nine chapters of the book. Reflecting a critical and creative synthesis of some recent research in the Himalayas, the present work becomes unique in this respect and possible the first of its kind. The study will prove to be of immense interest to glaciologists, glacial geomorpholgists, land-sat image and remote sensing specialists, hydrologists, flood-management experts and environmentalists About the Author Manmohan Nath Kaul (b. 1944) is currently a Reader in the Post-Graduate Department of Geography at Jammu University. He has taught at under-graduate and graduate level for over two decades. Dr. Kaul was awarded Ph. D. from Panjab University after obtaining M. Phil and M.A. from Kashmir University and Panjab University respectively. He has contributed a number of research papers in national and international journals. As a keen and devoted geomorphologist, he has taken part in glacial expeditions to Nun-Kun and Harmukh glaciers. Geomorphology, Environmental Geography, water Resources and Soil Management constitute the areas in which Dr. Kaul evinces keen interest