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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 name "Aryan Valley" was created within this discourse. [ web 3 ] In 2019, locals demanded that the "Aryan valley" be declared as a heritage village to boost tourism. [ web 4 ] The discourse on the Aryan traits of the Brokpas has been increasingly appropriated by right-wing Hindutva groups to leverage their supposed indigeneity against the ...
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]
Other Indo-Aryan peoples 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 ( Gurez ) in the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in India. [ 9 ]
The two villages situated in the Dha Hanu valley, also known as Aryan valley, about 163 km northwest of Leh in Ladakh. Being at a lower altitude, Dha and Hanu is warmer than Leh, allowing for the cultivation of wine-grapes and cherries as well as apricots and walnuts.
Dardic is simply a convenient term to denote a bundle of aberrant [Indo-Aryan] hill-languages which, in their relative isolation, accented in many cases by the invasion of Pathan tribes, have been in varying degrees sheltered against the expand influence of [Indo-Aryan] Midland (Madhyadesha) innovations, being left free to develop on their own ...
The Suru valley is inhabited 25,000 by people of Dard and Tibetan descent. [citation needed] The majority of the population are followers of Shi'a Islam. [26]According to local tradition, the populace was converted from Tibetan Buddhism during the rule of Thi-Namgyal, chief of Kartse and his Balti wife Thi Lha Khatun, who brought Muslim scholars to the area, which ultimately led to many ...