Abstract:
Soniwals are people living in Diamir District of Gilgit-Baltistan. They are
evidently indigenous people and have a distinct culture. They wash gold out of the sand
of river Indus and its tributaries. This research spotlights the realities of the said culture,
people and their unique economic activity, gold washing. Exploratory research design
has been used while snowball and purposive sampling techniques have been used in this
research. Epistemological position of Interpretivism is adopted to find the realities.
