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Gelemo is located on the Tsari Chu between Bidak and Maja upstream and Gelensiniak downstream.[1][2] Longju is in Indian territory according to Indian claims.[3]

Gelemo[lower-alpha 1] or Gelomo[6] (full name: Gelomoring)[6] is a border village in the Upper Subansiri district, Arunachal Pradesh, India. It is on the bank of the Tsari Chu river before its confluence with the Subansiri River, at a distance of "two days march" from the Indian claimed border at Longju.[5] The present Line of Actual Control between China and India is at roughly half that distance.

Gelemo village

Gelemo is in Limeking Circle of the Upper Subansiri district, one of the border areas adjoining the China–India border. The Tsari Chu river that flows here originates in Tibet, flows east up to Migyitun, traditionally considered a Tibetan border town, and turns south-southeast until its confluence with the Subansiri River at Gelensiniak.

Gelemo has a population of 40 people living in 11 households, as per the 2011 census.[7]

The Indian Army has set up a primary school in the Gelemo village called Sawaiman Primary School, named after the battalion that constructed it (the Sawaiman battalion of the Rajputana Rifles).[8][9] Trained army personnel also teach in the school.[8][10]

History

After the Longju incident in 1959, the Assam Rifles border troops stationed at Longju retreated to Gelemo and set up a post there.[11][5] Afterwards, a new border post was established at Maja,[lower-alpha 2] 10 km south of Longju.[14][15] The present Line of Actual Control is believed to run between Maja and the Chinese border post at Xingqiangpu Zhang.

The Border Roads Organisation of India completed the road link between Tame Chung Chung and Maja in 2018. During its construction, Gelemo served as a construction base with all the construction equipment air lifted to Gelemo.[16]

Notes

  1. ↑ The spelling used by the Indian Army. Also spelt Galemo.[4] Older documents possibly misspelt it as Gallen.[5]
  2. ↑ Alternative spellings include Majha[12] and Maza.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Asian Alpine E-News Issue No. 45" (PDF). January 2019. p. 8. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  2. ↑ The Himalayan Journal, Volume 62. 1929. pp. 72, 80. ISBN 9780195687439. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  3. ↑ "Subansiri Map" (PDF). Claude Arpi. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  4. ↑ Kapadia, Harish (2006). "Secrets of Subansiri: Himalayan Journal vol.62/7". Himalayan Journal. Retrieved 23 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Jawaharlal Nehru (1961), Prime Minister on Sino-Indian Relations, External Publicity Division, Ministery of External Affairs, Government of India: "... two of our men from Longju who were contacted and, according to them, our party had come away from Longju, about two days 'march from Longju and had established a forward post at Gallen'."
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Upper Subansiri District Census Handbook (2011), p. 79.
  7. ↑ Upper Subansiri District Census Handbook (2011), p. 88.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Singh, Vinod Kumar (17 June 2017). "Army school in village". Telegraph India. Retrieved 22 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ↑ "4 Corps GOC calls on Governor Brig (Retd) Dr B D Mishra, CM Pema Khandu". Sentinel Assam. 29 December 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ↑ "COAS calls on Governor". The Arunachal Times. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ↑ Kavic, Lorne J. (1967), India's Quest for Security: Defence Policies, 1947-1965, University of California Press, p. 67: "The contempt in which Peking held the warning was reflected on 26 August, when a Chinese force ejected twelve soldiers of the Assam Rifles from the border post at Longju, located 3 or 4 miles south of the McMahon Line, and the Indian detachment fell back to Gallen, about two days' march distant."
  12. ↑ China hatching new conspiracy near Arunachal Pradesh border after defeat in Ladakh, Zee News, 20 September 2020.
  13. ↑ How much land did Arunachal Pradesh lose to China after 1962 war?, EastMojo, 24 June 2020.
  14. ↑ Sandhu, Shankar & Dwivedi, 1962 from the Other Side of the Hill (2015), pp. 108–109: After the Longju incident, Assam Rifles did not reoccupy Longju and instead set - up a post at Maja, 10 km South of Longju, on 29 Aug 1959.
  15. ↑ India-China row: 8 disputed border areas that China claims as its own, The Economic Times, 12 July 2018.
  16. ↑ Kumar, Pradeep (14 February 2018). "BRO links remote villages on Indo-China border". ANI News. Retrieved 22 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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Coordinates: 28°29′10″N 93°27′27″E / 28.4862°N 93.4576°E / 28.4862; 93.4576

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