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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Chulichan
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| native_name_lang =sharchey-chulichan
| settlement_type = village
| pushpin_map = India Ladakh#India
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in [[Ladakh, India]]
| coordinates = {{coord|34.663323|76.315108|display=inline,title}}
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| subdivision_type = [[Country]]
| subdivision_name = India
| subdivision_type1 = [[Union Territory]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Ladakh]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of Ladakh|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Kargil district|Kargil]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[List of tehsils in India|Tehsil]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Kargil]]
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| seat_type = [[Panchayat]]
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| unit_pref = Metric
| area_total_km2 = 1.2590
| elevation_m =
| population_as_of = 2011
| population_total = 912
| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_demonym =
| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Brokskat]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 194103
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'''Chulichan'''{{efn|Alternative spellings: '''Chulichang'''<ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-181831961-kargil-52-b-1928.jpg Kashmir & Jammu mapsheet 52-b], Survey of India, 1928.</ref> and '''Chulichen'''.{{sfn|Bhan|2013|p=31}}}} is a village in the [[Kargil district]] of [[Ladakh]], India, close to the [[Line of Control]] with [[Pakistan-administered Kashmir]]. It is populated by Shia Brokpas and [[Balti people|Baltis]].

== Geography ==
Chulichan is on the left bank of the [[Indus River]] in a narrow section of Indus valley known as [[Brog Yul]]. It is the last village in [[Indian-administered Kashmir|Indian-administered]] Ladakh; the next village on the left bank, Natsara, is in [[Pakistan-administered Kashmir|Pakistan-administered]] [[Baltistan]]. Chulichan has an area of {{Convert|125.90|ha|km2}} and includes five [[hamlets]]: Groung Khril, Groung Stod-I, Groung Stod-II, Sharchey and Grongjuk.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hamlet wise village detail |url=https://www.dseokargil.ladakh.gov.in/hamlet.html |website=DISTRICT Statistics & Evaluation office Kargil, Ladakh}}</ref>

== History ==
Historically, Chulichan and the adjacent regions were populated by [[Brokpa]] people. Folklore maintains that they arrived at their current habitat from the [[Gilgit]] region.<ref name="Vohra" /> The Brokpa chieftains wielded autonomy in the region, pledging nominal allegiance to the Maqpon rulers of [[Skardu]].<ref name="Vohra" />

However, things changed in the seventeenth century when [[Jamyang Namgyal]] of Ladakh had a conflict with [[Ali Sher Khan Anchan]] of Skardu and had to accept Gurgurdho, a hamlet on the opposite bank of the Indus river, as a boundary between their territories.<ref name="Vohra">{{Cite journal |last=Vohra |first=Rohit |date=1982 |title=Ethnographic Notes on the Buddhist Dards of Ladakh: The Brog-Pā |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25841799 |journal=Zeitschrift für Ethnologie |volume=107 |issue=1 |pages=72, 81-82 |issn=0044-2666}}</ref> Consequently, Chulichan and villages to the north of it, such as [[Ganokh]] and [[Marol, Baltistan|Marol]], became part of Baltistan and influenced by Shia Islam.<ref name="Vohra" /> When [[Robert Barkley Shaw]] visited the village in 1876, he found [[Balti people|Baltis]] and [[Brokpa|Brokpas]] living there, professing Shia Islam.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shaw |first=R. B. |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280511 |title=Stray Arians in Tibet |date=1878 |quote=The village of Ganok is entirely inhabited by Musalman Brokpas, while those of Dangel, Marul, Chuli-chan, and singkarmo, are inhabited partly by Musalmun (Shi’ah) Brokpas, and partly by Baltis (Tibetan Musalmans) of the same sect.}}</ref>

Nevertheless, the local Brokpas continued to maintain marital relations with their ethnic kin in the [[Dah Hanu region]] of Ladakh; such connections would cease only with the latter's acceptance of Buddhism c. late nineteenth century.<ref name="Vohra" /> In the aftermath of the [[First Kashmir War]] (1947–1948), with Pakistan annexing territories north of Chulichan, it became the only Brokpa village in India to be primarily composed of Muslims.

==Demographics==
According to the latest census of India (2011), the village has 912 inhabitants across 112 households.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Directorate of Census Operations, 2011. |url=https://cdn.s3waas.gov.in/s341ae36ecb9b3eee609d05b90c14222fb/uploads/2018/09/2018091067.pdf |page=56}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[Ganokh]]
*[[Garkon]]
*[[Dha, Ladakh|Dha]]
*[[Darchik]]
*[[Hanoo]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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; Sources
* {{citation |last=Bhan |first=Mona |title=Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India: From Warfare to Welfare? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZTDAAAAQBAJ |year=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-50983-6}}

[[Category:Villages in Kargil tehsil]]

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