Chulichan | |
|---|---|
village | |
  Chulichan Location in Ladakh, India  Chulichan Chulichan (India) | |
| Coordinates: 34°39′48″N 76°18′54″E / 34.663323°N 76.315108°E | |
| Country | India |
| Union Territory | Ladakh |
| District | Kargil |
| Tehsil | Kargil |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.2590 km2 (0.4861 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 912 |
| • Density | 720/km2 (1,900/sq mi) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Brokskat |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 194103 |
Chulichan[lower-alpha 1] 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 Baltis.
Geography[edit | edit source]
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 Ladakh; the next village on the left bank, Natsara, is in Pakistan-administered Baltistan. Chulichan has an area of 125.90 hectares (1.2590 km2) and includes five hamlets: Groung Khril, Groung Stod-I, Groung Stod-II, Sharchey and Grongjuk.[3][4]
History[edit | edit source]
Historically, Chulichan and the adjacent regions were populated by Brokpa people. Folklore maintains that they arrived at their current habitat from the Gilgit region.[5] The Brokpa chieftains wielded autonomy in the region, pledging nominal allegiance to the Maqpon rulers of Skardu.[5]
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.[5] Consequently, Chulichan and villages to the north of it, such as Ganokh and Marol, became part of Baltistan and influenced by Shia Islam.[5] When Robert Barkley Shaw visited the village in 1876, he found Baltis and Brokpas living there, professing Shia Islam.[6]
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.[5] 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[edit | edit source]
According to the latest census of India (2011), the village has 912 inhabitants across 112 households.[3]
See also[edit | edit source]
Notes[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Kashmir & Jammu mapsheet 52-b, Survey of India, 1928.
- ↑ Bhan 2013, p. 31.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Directorate of Census Operations, 2011" (PDF). p. 56.
- ↑ "Hamlet wise village detail". DISTRICT Statistics & Evaluation office Kargil, Ladakh.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Vohra, Rohit (1982). "Ethnographic Notes on the Buddhist Dards of Ladakh: The Brog-Pā". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 107 (1): 72, 81–82. ISSN 0044-2666.
- ↑ Shaw, R. B. (1878). Stray Arians in Tibet.
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.
- Sources
- Bhan, Mona (2013), Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India: From Warfare to Welfare?, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-134-50983-6