Demchok (historical village)

For the modern Indian-administered village, see Demchok, Ladakh. For the modern Chinese-administered village, see Demchok, Ngari Prefecture. For the disputed area, see Demchok sector.

Demchok
བདེ་མཆོག
Village
Demchok depicted in a Survey of India map of 1874
Demchok depicted in a Survey of India map of 1874
Demchok is located in Ladakh
Demchok
Demchok
Demchok is located in Tibet
Demchok
Demchok
Coordinates: 32°42′0″N 79°27′30″E / 32.70000°N 79.45833°E / 32.70000; 79.45833
Elevation
4,220 m (13,850 ft)
Languages

Demchok (Tibetan: ཌེམ་ཆོག, Wylie: bde mchog, THL: dem chok, ZYPY: dêmqog),[1][a] was described by a British boundary commission in 1847 as a village lying on the border between the Kingdom of Ladakh and the Tibet. It was a "hamlet of half a dozen huts and tents", divided into two parts by a rivulet which formed the boundary between the two states.[5][6] The rivulet, a tributary of the Indus River variously called the Demchok River, Charding Nullah, or the Lhari stream, was set as the boundary between Ladakh and Tibet in the 1684 Treaty of Tingmosgang. By 1904–05, the Tibetan side of the hamlet was said to have had 8 to 9 huts of zamindars (landholders), while the Ladakhi side had two.[7] The area of the former Demchok now straddles the Line of Actual Control, the effective border of the People's Republic of China's Tibet Autonomous Region and the Republic of India's Ladakh Union Territory.

  1. ^ Tibet Autonomous Region (China): Ngari Prefecture, KNAB Place Name Databse, retrieved 27 July 2021.
  2. ^ Bray, John (Winter 1990), "The Lapchak Mission From Ladakh to Lhasa in British Indian Foreign Policy", The Tibet Journal, 15 (4): 77, JSTOR 43300375
  3. ^ Henry Osmaston; Nawang Tsering, eds. (1997), Recent Research on Ladakh 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Colloquium on Ladakh, Leh 1993, International Association for Ladakh Studies / Motilal Banarsidass Publ., p. 299, ISBN 978-81-208-1432-5
  4. ^ Cunningham, Alexander (1854), Ladak: Physical, Statistical, Historical, London: Wm. H. Allen and Co, p. 328 – via archive.org
  5. ^ Lamb, The China-India border (1964), pp. 64–66.
  6. ^ Lamb, Treaties, Maps and the Western Sector (1965), p. 38.
  7. ^ Report of the Officials, Indian Report, Part 3 (1962), pp. 3–4, 41.


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