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{{Infobox settlement<br />
| name = Ganokh<br />
| settlement_type = Village<br />
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| other_name = Ganoks<br />
| native_name = Ganisha<br />
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| subdivision_type = Country<br />
| subdivision_name = [[Pakistan]]<br />
| subdivision_type1 = [[Provinces of Pakistan|Province]]<br />
| subdivision_name1 = [[Gilgit-Baltistan]]<br />
| subdivision_type2 = [[Districts of Gilgit–Baltistan|District]]<br />
| subdivision_name2 = [[Kharmang District|Kharmang]]<br />
| subdivision_type3 = [[Tehsils of Gilgit-Baltistan|Tehsil]]<br />
| subdivision_name3 = [[Kharmang Valley|Kharmang]]<br />
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'''Ganokh''',{{efn|Alternative spellings: '''Ganok'''{{sfn|Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak|1890|pp=241, 323}} and '''Ganoks'''{{sfn|Bhan|2006|p=51}}{{sfn|Vohra|1982|p=76}}}} ({{bo|w=ga nog}})<ref name="Francke">{{cite book |last=Francke |first=August Hermann |url=https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.24327/page/272 |title=Antiquities of Indian Tibet, Part 2 |publisher=Superintendent Government Printing |year=1926 |location=Calcutta |page=272 |author-link=A. H. Francke |via=archive.org}}</ref> locally called '''Ganishah,'''{{sfn|Bhan|2006|p=51}} is a village in the [[Kharmang District]] of [[Baltistan]], Pakistan, close to the [[Line of Control]] with Indian-administered [[Ladakh]]. It is populated by [[Brokpa]]s professing [[Shia Islam]].{{sfn|Nicolaus|2015|p=206}}<br />
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== Geography ==<br />
The village of Ganokh consists of two census settlements, '''Gamba Ganokh''' and '''Goma Ganokh'''. Both lie in the valley of the Ganokh Nala, a tributary of the [[Indus River]]. The [[Line of Control]] (LOC) with [[Indian-administered Kashmir]] ([[Ladakh]]) run south of the valley, about {{convert|2|km}} along the Indus, on a ridge line that forms the watershed between the Ganokh Nala and the Ghargurdo and Yaldor Nalas on the other.{{efn|Alternative spellings: Gurgurdo, Gurugurdo.}} It continues on to the [[Chorbat La]] pass.<br />
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== Demographics ==<br />
Ganokh is populated by [[Brokpa]]s professing [[Shia Islam]].{{sfn|Nicolaus|2015|p=206}} According to a 2022 news report, it is the only village in Pakistan where the [[Brokskat]] language is spoken.<ref><br />
{{Cite web |author=Zafar Syed |date=16 March 2022 |script-title=ur:بروسکت: پاکستان میں ایک نئی زبان دریافت |trans-title=Bruskat: A new language discovered in Pakistan |url=https://www.independenturdu.com/node/96706 |website=Independent Urdu |language=ur}}<br />
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== History ==<br />
Historically, Ganokh and the adjacent regions were populated by [[Brokpa]] people. Folklore maintains that they arrived there from the [[Gilgit]] region through the Gavis valley (to the north of the Ganokh valley) and colonised Ganokh, Yaldor, and Hanu before spreading to Dha.{{sfn|Vohra|1982|p=73}} Their chieftains wielded significant autonomy in the region, pledging nominal allegiance to the Maqpon rulers of Skardu.{{sfn|Vohra|1982|p=76}}<br />
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However, things changed in the seventeenth century when [[Jamyang Namgyal]] of Ladakh faced a conflict with [[Ali Sher Khan Anchan]] of Skardu and had to accept Gurgurdho as a boundary between their territories.{{sfn|Vohra|1982|p=76}} Consequently, Ganokh was integrated into Baltistan and became influenced by Shia Islam.{{sfn|Vohra|1982|p=76}} Nevertheless, the local Brokpas continued to maintain marital relations with their ethnic kin in the [[Dah Hanu region]] of Ladakh; cross-border trade also occurred, with the village serving as a tax collection post.{{sfn|Vohra|1982|p=76}}<br />
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Family connections ceased when the latter accepted Buddhism in c. late nineteenth century.{{sfn|Vohra|1982|p=76}} In the aftermath of the [[First Kashmir War]] (1947–1948), Ganokh fell in Pakistan and became permanently inaccessible for Dah-Hanu Brokpas.{{sfn|Bhan|2006|p=51}} During the 1999 [[Kargil War]], the Ganokh valley provided a key infiltration route for Pakistani forces, through which they accessed the Dah-Hanu region.<ref>Lt Gen H. S. Panag, [https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/04/07/memories-of-munthu-dhalo Memories Of Munthu Dhalo], News Laundry, 7 April 2017.</ref> The ensuing shelling and fighting caused much loss of life and property in Ganokh; many had to be evacuated and remain [[Internally displaced person|internally displaced]] even two decades after the war.<ref><br />
{{Cite news |date=2019-07-26 |title=Kargil: The forgotten victims of the world's highest war |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49101016 |access-date=2023-01-29}}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Chulichan]]<br />
* [[Garkon]]<br />
* [[Dha, Ladakh|Dha]]<br />
* [[Darchik]]<br />
* [[Hanoo]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
* {{citation |title=Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak |publisher=Superintendent of Government Printing |location=Calcutta |year=1890|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43256 |via=archive.org |ref={{sfnref|Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak|1890}}}}<br />
* {{citation |first=Mona |last=Bhan |title=Visible Margins: State, Identity, and Development among Brogpas of Ladakh (India) |publisher=Rutgers University |date=2006 |id={{ProQuest|305292033}}}}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Nicolaus |first=Peter |title=Residues of Ancient Beliefs among the Shin in the Gilgit-Division and Western Ladakh |journal=Iran and the Caucasus |language=en |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=201–264 |date=October 2015 |doi=10.1163/1573384X-20150302 |issn=1573-384X |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283245716 |via=researchgate.net}}<br />
* {{citation |first=Rohit |last=Vohra |title=Ethnographic Notes on the Buddhist Dards of Ladakh: The Brog-Pā |journal=Zeitschrift für Ethnologie |volume=107 |number=1 |year=1982 |pages=69–94 |jstor=25841799}}<br />
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