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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]
The Brokpa people of Dah Hanu are nominally Buddhist but also worship their own animist pantheon of gods. They converted to Buddhism in the mid-nineteenth century. [ 5 ] They have an Indo-European appearance in contrast to the predominant Tibeto-Mongol inhabitants of most of Ladakh . [ 4 ]
Darchik [a] is a village in the Kargil district of Ladakh, primarily populated by the Brokpa people. The main language spoken here is known as Brokskat (in Ladakhi) which is part of the Dardic language of the Indo-European branch. Darchik is one of the four villages comprising the Aryan valley (with two in Kargil district and two in Leh district).
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.
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 ...