Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River, Alice Albinia, pp. 285, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010, ISBN 9780393063226, ... On the upper reaches of the Indus, in the town of Ali (the Chinese-built headquarters of far western Tibet) ... also called Shiquanhe (the Chinese name for the Indus) and Senge Khabab (the Tibetan name for the source) ... Senge-Ali is a small town barely five streets broad. There are very few Tibetan inhabitants ...