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The Brokpa speak an Indo-Aryan language called Brokskat, which is a variety of the Shina language currently spoken in the Gilgit region. [9] ( During the British Raj, it became common to refer to the people of the Gilgit region as "Dards" using ancient nomenclature.
Brokpa, Drokpa, Dard and Shin is a category of Scheduled Tribes under the Indian constitution. The category contains tribes who speak Dardic languages. [1] In the Indian-administered Kashmir region, these tribes are mostly found in the Kargil and Baramulla districts and few of them are found in Leh.
The Bono-na or Bono nah is an ancient festival of the Minaro ( Brokpa) people [4] hosted alternatively between Dha and Garkon villages of the Aryan Valley region of Ladakh, India with a gap of a year. [5] It is a festival of thanksgiving to their deities and gods for good crops and prosperity to the people and the land of Minaro. [6]
The region is inhabited by the Brokpas — an exonym, used by the Ladakhis (lit. Highlanders) — who are a sub-group of the Shin people. [2] From their oral history, it can be reasoned that Dah-Hanu region was first occupied c. 10th century by a group of migratory Shins who practiced the largely-animist ancient Dardic religion, and staked claim to a "Minaro" ethnic identity. [2]
Scheduled Tribes of Jammu and Kashmir (2 C, 9 P) Shaikh clans (18 P) Pages in category "Social groups of Jammu and Kashmir" ... (tribe) Brokpa; Burusho people; C ...
The name "Brokpa" is used by Ladakhi and Balti Tibetic origin people to refer to this ethnic group. Brokpa means "hill-dweller" or "hillbilly," reflecting their historical lifestyle as hunters in the upper mountainous regions. Endonym. The Brokpa themselves refer to their language as Minaro and identify their ethnic group by the same name, Minaro.
Dah (also known as Dha) and Hanu are two villages of the Brokpa of the Leh District of the Indian union territory of Ladakh. [2] [3] Until 2010, these were the only two villages where tourists were allowed to visit out of a number of Brokpa villages.
The Shina (Shina: ݜݨیاٗ, Ṣiṇyaá) or Gilgitis [7] are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group [8] primarily residing in Gilgit–Baltistan and Indus Kohistan in Pakistan, as well as in the Dras Valley and Kishenganga Valley in the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in India. [9]